How To Cut A 3d Model In Half Cura

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How to cut a 3d model in half cura. My name is paul van gaans im a 20 year veteran of the animation industry and this is my foray into the world of 3d printing and youtube content creation. This is how i do it works well. The default usually works great. Ive placed the model upside down on the cura plate to cut off what was well printed.

Where is it. Its hung for a while so ill give it a bit before i give up and do it properly in a 3d app. Ive tried using mesh fixes. Select whether you want to keep both halves slice or just one cut from the cut type drop down menu.

Try cura 1504 which you can get here. I guess it either takes ages or doesnt. The model will still look like one piece. I have a model i want to split real quick that wont load into maya and im on my tablet which i hate using for anything other than drawing or sculpting.

Just trying to help. Ive made a simple 3d cube model in blender and placed it so it intersect with the part i want to print ive set the mesh type of that cube to dont support overlaps for that. If you have an stl model that is too big from your 3d printer you can cut it up into smaller pieces and print it out. I new at this 3d printing stuff and its kind of hard navigating through all the guys who make 3d stuff and the excess junk they add to t.

You can learn more about the various filling methods in meshmixer documentation. So you could print out the top half of it then rotate the part 180 degrees and print the bottom part.