{"id":1500,"date":"2011-06-14T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:15:21","slug":"sketchup-to-stl-plugin-with-no-dialogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/sketchup-to-stl-plugin-with-no-dialogs\/","title":{"rendered":"SketchUp to STL Plugin with No Dialogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stl_mm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stl_mm.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"stl_mm\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1508\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stl_mm.png 450w, http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stl_mm-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen designing parts for the Makerbot my tool of choice is Google SketchUp.  I&#8217;m able to do this easily (and for free) due to the work of Nathan Bromham and Konrad Shroeder.  Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitar-list.com\/download-software\/convert-sketchup-skp-files-dxf-or-stl\">skp_to_dxf plugin<\/a> quickly exports my model into stl format, which can then be read by ReplicatorG.<\/p>\n<p>One minor annoyance though.  Every time I run the plugin I need to specify &#8220;Millimeters&#8221; and &#8220;STL&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve been revising a lot of models lately; trying things out then checking the resulting tool path in skeinforge.  Somewhere around the 20th time specifying the SAME THING, I decided to go into the plug-in code and just hard-set my options.<\/p>\n<p>The result is my variant of the plugin, which I&#8217;ve labeled <a href=\"\/download\/skp_to_Custom.rb\">skp_to_Custom<\/a>.  I did almost nothing.  I commented out the dialog code and instead included a section at the beginning of the code where you can hard-set your options.  That&#8217;s it.  But MAN has it saved me some aggravation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/download\/skp_to_Custom.rb\"><br \/>\nDownload<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing parts for the Makerbot my tool of choice is Google SketchUp. I&#8217;m able to do this easily (and for free) due to the work of Nathan Bromham and Konrad Shroeder. Their skp_to_dxf plugin quickly exports my model into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/sketchup-to-stl-plugin-with-no-dialogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-makerbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}