Hi community,
Is anyone else having issues with S3d creating slicing errors and reporting self-intersecting surfaces. I model and export my meshes from Rhinoceros 5.0. The mesh is created from Valid Closed Poysurface and 8/10 times I get this error from S3D. I check the mesh in Rhino and Rhino reports it's fine. I even tried to slice a model from Ultibots (the micro extruder body created in Alibre Design), and their STL had the same issues. Processing these files through netFabbs (Mircosoft) cloud service doesn't remove these self-intersecting surfaces. The same files slice fine in Cura and Slic3r.
Is anyone else having similiar issues? Did you figure what the problem was? Care to take a guess or have a theory and way to test it?
I have already contacted support at S3D, they showed little interest in helping me understand the issue, and simply told not use software which created "irreparable errors".
Any help is appreciated. Thanks,
Guy
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Re: self-intersecting surfaces
FYI - There is a big difference between a 3D-Solid model and a 3D-Surface model. When creating models from Surfaces for 3d printing, they must be closed or filled. The CAD program should have a function to do that (it may be called “Close Volume”, "Fill Volume"...etc).
Also, you can download the free NetFabb Basic to use as stand-alone without need to do it online. It has a repair function - you just need to tell it to repair the part. Then, Export it as an STL. It's all I use. S3d does not do a good job repairing models and can make a perfectly good model/stl into a bad one - I suggest you avoid using it.
Also, you can download the free NetFabb Basic to use as stand-alone without need to do it online. It has a repair function - you just need to tell it to repair the part. Then, Export it as an STL. It's all I use. S3d does not do a good job repairing models and can make a perfectly good model/stl into a bad one - I suggest you avoid using it.
