Wood filament grain app

cults3d

The 3dowl.stl file included in this posting is not mine, it was created by satoshi and is included here only because Thingiverse demands the inclusion of at least one of a set of file types. When I posted this script originally there was no such rule, but with this August 2019 update it has become necessary. I've been experimenting with some wood filament from Formfutura (http://www.formfutura.com/) and Mooncactus has created a grain script in python that converts a gcode file into one that simulates woodgrain. Sadly I couldn't get the resultant file to be accepted in Makerware, so I set about fixing it, crudely, but as it turns out, effectively. I made a VB script that runs under MS Word that takes the original gcode file, finds any 'Slice' entries and inserts one of Mooncactus's variable temperature settings underneath it. So every layer is printed at a different temperature from the last one, some changes are gradual, some more dramatic. You can see the difference it makes in the two owls (made by Satoshi). Update - August 2019 Thanks to osterac for updating the Excel file to work with Cura. When I created the original I did it for the gcode created by the Makerbot slicer. i didn't realise then (or perhaps, as everything seemed to use Replicator G to generate the gcode, it didn't matter) that there would be various flavours of gcode, some of which would not create the markers my code looked for. Hopefully osterac's update gives the script a refresh making it useful again. I suggest you try osterac's version first and if that doesn't work, try my original. If that doesn't work and you feel like tinkering, have a go. Let me know if you create another version and I'll happily post that and give credit.