RepRap: Builders

Up to about a month ago I was hell-bent on printing something useful. I got in the habit of taking short cuts instead of making sure that everything was working right as a complete system. In some ways that XML format transfer file between the Slice and Dice software and Tommelise's Control Panel was just about too clever by half. The temptation, which I succumbed to, was to build object descriptions by simply writing an XML file directly rather than using Art of Illusion to generate an object and then slicing it into a set of layers.

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