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The slc.py script is an import translator plugin to get a carving from an slc file.

An import plugin is a script in the import_plugins folder which has the function getCarving. It is meant to be run from the interpret tool. To ensure that the plugin works on platforms which do not handle file capitalization properly, give the plugin a lower case name.

The getCarving function takes the file name of an slc file and returns the carving.

This example gets a triangle mesh for the slc file rotor.slc. This example is run in a terminal in the folder which contains rotor.slc and slc.py.


> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 22 2007, 01:43:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import slc
>>> slc.getCarving()
0.20000000298, 999999999.0, -999999999.0, [8.72782748851e-17, None
..
many more lines of the carving
..


An explanation of the SLC format can be found at:
http://rapid.lpt.fi/archives/rp-ml-1999/0713.html

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Modules
		__init__ skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.euclidean skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.gcodec sys

Classes
		SLCCarving SampleTableEntry   class SLCCarving     An slc carving.     Methods defined here: __init__(self) Add empty lists. __repr__(self) Get the string representation of this carving. getCarveCornerMaximum(self) Get the corner maximum of the vertices. getCarveCornerMinimum(self) Get the corner minimum of the vertices. getCarveLayerThickness(self) Get the layer thickness. getCarveRotatedBoundaryLayers(self) Get the rotated boundary layers. processContourLayers(self, file) Process a contour layer at a time until the top of the part. readFile(self, fileName) Read SLC and store the layers. readTableEntry(self, file) Read in the sampling table section. It contains a table length (byte) and the table entries. setCarveBridgeLayerThickness(self, bridgeLayerThickness) Set the bridge layer thickness.  If the infill is not in the direction of the bridge, the bridge layer thickness should be given as None or not set at all. setCarveImportRadius(self, importRadius) Set the import radius. setCarveIsCorrectMesh(self, isCorrectMesh) Set the is correct mesh flag. setCarveLayerThickness(self, layerThickness) Set the layer thickness.   class SampleTableEntry     Sample table entry.     Methods defined here: __init__(self, file) Read in the sampling table section. It contains a table length (byte) and the table entries. __repr__(self) Get the string representation of this sample table entry.

Functions
		getCarving(fileName='') Get the triangle mesh for the slc file. getLittleEndianFloatGivenFile(file) Get little endian float given a file. getLittleEndianUnsignedLongGivenFile(file) Get little endian float given a file. getPointsFromFile(numPoints, file) Process the vertice points for a given boundary. main() Display the inset dialog. readHeader(file) Read the slc header.

Data
		__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __credits__ = 'Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/>\nArt of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/21/04 $' __license__ = 'GPL 3.0' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384)

Author
		Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)

Credits
		Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/> Art of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>