Hi, I’m trying to get this to slice in cura 5.6.0
Yellow block is set as a cutting mesh. Can Cura just not ignore stuff outside of the bulid area?
I’m open to suggestions on how to cut it outside of cura as well. I tried meshmixer, but the import absolutely destroys the stl
Thanks!
Cura can ignore what’s below buildplate as long as part isn’t too big for X Y axes. For cutting this, I would use 3d builder. Very easy to use. Just open model, and go to modify to cut model
I am not as familiar with cura, but prusa slicer / super slicer have a tool cut any model along a plane into 2 pieces. That seems to be what you want.
I don’t think that Cura is smart enough to cut STL files apart like that. My guess is that a program like blender would be best to do this, make a shape the size of your printer’s build volume (or slightly smaller), put the part you want to print inside of the shape, then remove everything else.
I’m not familiar with blender but that’s the work flow I would approach with.
Here’s how I would do this in blender:
- Import the stl
- edit the default cube so it overlaps the part of the stl you want to delete
- add a “boolean” modifier to the stl that is set to “subtract” the cube
- apply modifier
- export as stl
