Hello All,
I’ve got a project I’m trying to figure out where the original STL file is 8" deep. I’m trying to break it down into 2" Z-axis slices so I can carve it out of foam board.
Looking for recommendations on a software that can cut the original STL file into these slices.
thanks in advance!
My understanding is Fusion 360 has a specific feature for this.
It can be done w/ pretty much any 3D editor, say Microsoft Builder, though arguably it’s a bit easier w/ a programmatic one such as OpenSCAD (I may have done this here in the past — if you have difficulty finding it or working it out, upload the .stl and we will walk through this with you).
There is a tool, flatfab which does something along these lines in 3D:
Doesn’t look like flatfab will do what I’m hoping. I’ve loaded the STL file into my onedrive to share. I’m going to look into my options.
Using OpenSCAD:
This imports as:
import("Tut 6 in.stl");
Getting each layer is as straight-forward as:
intersection() {
import("Tut 6 in.stl");
translate([0, 0, -2]){
cube([100,100,2]);
}
}
then decrement the -2 to get each layer.
That is slick. How did you get the model to reference the bottom left corner as 0,0?
When I did the import on mine it centered the model on 0,0.
Is it possible to split a layer on the x or y-axis as well? Say for example if I needed to split the entire design down the middle of Tut’s face.
Even though I can cut a lot with the Shapeoko 5 Pro 4x4 with tiling enabling but there are a few applications where It could be useful to also split the design on the non-tiled axis. I do a good deal of large scale foam carving with it for theater sets
Post your code?
You can edit the code to slice in any direction/orientation — it’s just geometry.
Vectric Vcarve and Aspire also support slicing. I haven’t tried it but saw a couple of videos.
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