limska / volumesource

A simple web service which given an STL will produce a pricing quote for a 3D printed part

volumesource

A simple web service which given an STL will produce a pricing quote for a 3D printed part

Assumptions

1. The STL surface is not checked for closeness

2. For speed the STL vertices are duplicated, i.e.

3. The web server is based on Boost asio http server example

4. A 15% margin has been added to the volume at the end.

5. The web server returns just plain text for now. Needs to formated to JSON in future

6. The STL files need to be uploaded to volumesource\tests

7. Server port is hard coded to http://178.79.141.54:8080

Building

• The project is only C++11

• It depends on Boost 1.67.0 and cmake 1.11

• It was built with cross platform in mind. It is currently built on Windows with Visual Studio 2017, but should work on Linux with minor changes.

• To build on windows look at bin/build.bat and adapt it for your setup

• Download boost binaries boost_1_67_0-msvc-14.1-64.exe at same level as volumesource in boost\1.67.0.

• To build

cd volumesource
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DBOOST_ROOT="<path to boost installation>\boost\1.67.0\boost_1_67_0" 
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
cd path\to\build
devenv volumesource.sln /build

Running

cd volumesource
build\Release\volumesource.exe tests\block100.stl

Open browser and enter:

• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=block100.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=bottle.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=humanoid.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=magnolia.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=Mario_20170209.STL
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=shoe.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=sphere.stl
• http://178.79.141.54:8080/volume?filename=teapot.stl