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Why Can't I slice Wheels or Rims face up without getting a plug/disc covering it?
Has anyone tried to print wheels or wheels and tires face up? Why do three different slicing programs (MakerBot Desktop, Cura, and ReplicatorG) all put an extra disc or plug of material over the top of the wheel, completely blocking it?
See also photos...
Here's a photo of the STL
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These next images are progressive screen captures from Cura - MakerBot Desktop does the same thing.
Attachment 8234 so far so good...
Attachment 8236.... wait, what? Where'd the disc come from? The settings are no support material!
Attachment 8238 total fail.
Why does this happen when I select no raft and no supports?
Printer is a Flash Forge Creator Pro but I don't think its the printer.
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Unfortunately still not fixed
Thanks for the help guys. Still not there though.
Here's another STL that doesn't work and is a wheel. I borrowed this from a Karmann Ghia model on 3Dwarehouse for sketchup. Same problem different wheel.
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Sketchup is awfully particular whenever I make or edit solids, so I'm finding it hard to believe that there's something wrong with the model I made, and it just so happens to be the same, exact, identical problem with some other wheel (the wheel from the Karmann Ghia). Just doesn't make sense that it's the models.
For the folks that ran the model through netfabb, here's the sliced screen captures I see...
Attachment 8249 only 5 lug holes now
Attachment 8250 filling in the area above the wheel lug flange
Attachment 8251looking like a wheel again
Attachment 8252 oops here's the disc again.
Whether Simplify3d does this properly or not, I've gotten in contact with their tech support. I'm hopeful! I don't currently own their software but would consider it if their product fixes the issue.
Does anyone know if Replicator, Cura, MakerBot and possibly others have a less than ideal slicing engine (or engines)?
Thanks,
Kris W.