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What happens for you when you try to slice this model?

For me (OSX 10.9 S3D 2.1.2) it never completes. The CPU goes to 100% and eventually I give up waiting and have to force quite S3D.

I know it has something to do with the supports defined at 1mm. If I remove those the model slices right away like we're all used to.

The amount of computation you're asking for is maxing your computer out for a part this large with 1 mm support. The resolution doesn't need to be 1 mm for a part this large and with 4 mm resolution it sliced in about 10 seconds on my laptop. At 3 mm, it covers more of the backend, but took about a minute to slice, so you can see that it goes up exponentially in computation required.

Yep I had already tried slicing with a bigger resolution for supports after I posted. Note to self to just make a mental note that support resolution on big parts causes massive increase in CPU time requirements.