Dreaming of reversing G-Code to STL

[jaln]

It would really be useful to have a reverse function that took a G-Code file back to STL.

[arhi]

you can extract all the XYZ values from g-code and create point cloud, or even better, parse gcode and create more points along each line... then you can use that point cloud to create mesh .. it will never be identical to original STL but it can be very close

[srinivasbakki]

Interesting! What's the use case you have for this ?

[dkightley]

There is an online service that will reverse engineer a gcode file back into an stl file.....

https://makeprintable.com/labs


Be warned....if the gcode file included slicer generated support, then the reverse engineered file will also contain the support!!!!