When I build it, I will Print Bricks.

[Demetrius]

Hello all.

So I've recently bought a 3D Printer ( XYZ DaVinci) and am using Blender to create my models, which seems to work well enough. I then convert the File.Blend into a File.STL and send it over to the Printer's program, and it loads just fine. The problem arises when I set my perimeters and tell it to print; it starts to slice the model, preps it to print, and then decides to skip whatever I loaded into it and print a Brick in the same size as specified.

The DaVinci has a 7.8 x 7.8 x 7.8 print bed, and the model I'm trying to print is only 3 x 4 x 1, so it's most definitely not the size. I was able to print a 1 x 1 x .5 model with cylinders and spaces, so unless I'm just doing something wrong with the model I truly don't know what is happening.


The concept of the idea is basically a wallet strapped to your wrist (Well, further down the hand so as to not be visible to pickpockets if you wear a longer sleeved shirt). The model that won't print as anything except a block is a 3 x 4 x .3 rectangle with the two sides bending further around the arm for .5, with the final .2 being slots for a velcro holder to go into to wrap around the arm. The final touch is four small ( .25 x .25 x .15) rectangles on the flat side so as I can connect the actual card holding part to it.

I'm printing it flat side down, so it's a flat surface with four small rectangles "gouged" out of it, continuing up to the Concave arm part. The only thing I can really think of is that it doesn't like printing over empty space and that freaks the machine out.



Any help is greatly appreciated.

[ssayer]

Have you run the .stl file through netfabb to test it?

https://netfabb.azurewebsites.net/

[Demetrius]

Have you run the .stl file through netfabb to test it?

https://netfabb.azurewebsites.net/

No, I had no idea that site existed.

Thanks

Edit: Would just like to report that after putting through there and going through the process, I printed as requested. Thanks so much