Looking for advice on printing a tricky part, a scan of seabed wreck.

[Davo]

sketchup sucks.

Can't see it working - but you never know.

But I would like to know why s3d doesn't add any support to a floating model. That can't be right.

You'd think that if you can generate 100% support, you could just generate a solid model from the top surfaces down to a plane, say 1mm below the lowest point... at least, I don't see the difficulty in theory.

[curious aardvark]

nope in theory it should do it.
In practice it just doesn't.

[Marm]

I use the CADspan plugin for STL importing. Seems to work the best.

But yeah, When i import the STL, it locks up. I let it sit for a while, and still only 1%. I'm assuming there's a buttload (that's a real measurement btw) of weird geometry SU doesn't like.

I've imported other Stl's and done similar work to them in SU, dunno why this one doesn't.