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My teammate @jaymiee__ figured out this one. He manually looked at the code and found the printer type.
geeetech_A10M
The website gcode.ws allows you to open a file with the extension gcode. These files are for 3D printing. Doing this and playing with the settings allowed us to see the flag "Flying_saucer". The question gives us a hint about "layers" so I imagine there is a more sophisticated way of doing this as well.
CTF{Flying_saucer}