Cutoff top aka top layers with open top.

[croadfeldt]

I am printing the Bonsai Planter by gCreate and need to have top layers in order to print some of the slopes correctly. I could use stop and start printing functionality, but that a top layer blocking off most of the main volume of the planter.

The perfect solution would be to be able to cut off the top. When you select stop at height, S3D still adds the top layers as expected.

I could stop the print but that's feels clunky. The best option would be to tell S3D to simply cut off the top AFTER all the other slicing is done. Is that possible?

[d353rt]

I don't think this would be easy to achieve in simplify. However you could take it into a modeling software and clone it, make the clone a little bit smaller and then arrange it such that you can subtract the clone from the original model leaving you with a wall and an open top. Somewhat like taking a circle and removing a smaller circle from its (do I use its or it's here?) center to make a ring.

[Rebekah_harper]

In the layer tab you can select the number of top and bottom layers. set top layers to 0

hope this was what you were looking for

becky

[croadfeldt]

In the layer tab you can select the number of top and bottom layers. set top layers to 0

hope this was what you were looking for

becky

Yeah, the issue is I need top layers because of the slope involved doesn't allow for a reasonable number of shells to have layers without gaps. So I need top layers to ensure the slope is filled in. But top layers gives you top layers across the entire model. Which is of course expected.

In the end what I will just do is stop the print either my modifying the gcode myself or canceling the print at the appropriate time.