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Hello,

I’m interested in creating my own g-code for makerbot 5th generation machines. Is it still a G-Code? I tried to open a .makerbot file and it looked like unformatted random characters in notepad.

My goal is to produce it with Silkworm (http://projectsilkworm.com/)

Thanks,

Victor Sardenberg

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.makerbot files are a zip file containing json instructions that the Makerbot 5th gen interprets.

There is no gcode in there.

You can change the file extension to .zip and extract the file to see the contents.

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Is it possible to control a 5th generation machine with g-code?

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You may be able to do it with Simplify3d, not sure of other software.

Open the gcode file with Simplify3d. Press “Save toolpath to disk”

It should create a .makerbot file.

PS, I have never done this, but the process works the same for creating x3g files.

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You may be able to do it with Simplify3d, not sure of other software.

Open the gcode file with Simplify3d. Press “Save toolpath to disk”

It should create a .makerbot file.

PS, I have never done this, but the process works the same for creating x3g files.

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No.