Welcome to PolyChemPrint3’s User Guide and Software Documentation!

PolyChemPrint3 is an open source benchtop additive manufacturing software developed at the University of Illinois by Bijal Patel and Dr. Ying Diao. For more information, please visit the project homepage and Diao Research Group homepage.

This readthedocs.io page contains:

A ‘user guide’ with instructions on setting up and operating the program.

A ‘software guide’ intended as a programming aid that contains the organized python docstrings for the modules, classes, and methods of this object-oriented program.

Note: If you use this software/code, please cite the original paper listed on the project homepage! It really helps!

User Guide

• 1. Program Overview
• 2. Installation and Setup
  • 2.1. Requirements/Supported OS
  • 2.2. Installing Anaconda (optional)
  • 2.3. Installing PCP3 from PyPi via pip
  • 2.4. Run from Source (from Github)
  • 2.5. Setting up new Hardware
  • 2.6. Modifying Marlin Firmware
• 3. Main Menu and Navigation
  • 3.1. Reading Menus
  • 3.2. Navigating Menus
  • 3.3. Special Commands
  • 3.4. Quit the Program
  • 3.5. Ctrl + C, or Break
• 4. Configuration/About Menu
  • 4.1. View Program Details and License Text
  • 4.2. Change Level of Output Detail
  • 4.3. Change Axes and Tool
• 5. Hardware Menu
  • 5.1. GCODE Entry
  • 5.2. Controlling Tools
  • 5.3. Hotkeys for Jogging Axes
  • 5.4. Clean and Raise Routines
  • 5.5. T ? , / . Commands
  • 5.6. Quit Hardware Menu
• 6. Sequence Menu
  • 6.1. The Sequence Library
  • 6.2. Importing GCode Sequences
• 7. Recipe Menu
  • 7.1. Creating a new Recipe
  • 7.2. Modifying/Saving Active Recipe
  • 7.3. Browse/Load Stored Recipes
  • 7.4. View Recipe Details
  • 7.5. Execute Recipe Menu

Software Guide

• PCP3 Package Overview
• Sphinx Autodocumentation
  • polychemprint3.commandLineInterface
  • polychemprint3.data
  • polychemprint3.axes
  • polychemprint3.tools
  • polychemprint3.recipes
  • polychemprint3.sequence
  • polychemprint3.utility