3Δ Printer Control

3Δ is a host software for 3d printers of the delta style. In many aspects it is similar to Pronterface. However it brings additional motion control better suited to non-cartesian delta printers.

List of features:

• GCode console
• Connection via serial port or telnet
• Plots for temperature, temperature deviation and heater PWM
• Relative and absolute motion control especially suited for delta printers
• Calibration assistance for delta printers
• GCode lookup taken from http://smoothieware.org/supported-g-codes
• SD card upload and play
• Send: direct playing of GCode files

This is how it looks:

Installation

Just download the file 3delta and make it executable. Besides that you need the following packages which are available under the usual Linux distributions

apt-get install tcl8.5 tk8.5 tcllib tklib

Then start it with

$ ./3delta 192.168.1.x
$ ./3delta /dev/ttyACM0

to access your printer either via telnet or via a serial port.

Disclaimer

This is very new software! I am using it for my MOST-Delta (see also github), but I cannot guarantee that it works for you. But I am happy to help if it doesn't :)

I am currently using Smoothieware as firmware. Some features might not work with other firmwares since the output format sometimes differs. I would appreciate patches which make this work with other firmwares.

In principle 3delta should work also under Mac and Windows when the current Tcl/Tk packages are installed. However I didn't test it.