Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video we are playing around with 3D printers. Or more precicsly with the GCode of 3D printers. Chris uses Houdini to modify the GCode to print non-planar layers and create unique looking objects that you could not achieve with regular 3D printing.

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0:00 Introduction
0:53 How we will approach this
2:43 Generate GCode
3:59 Import it into Houdini
6:36 Introduction into RegEx
9:20 Extract Info with RegEx
12:20 Create our object
15:00 Render out GCode
18:40 Recommendation