Hello! A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. Printing options: 200x200x300mm. The object, 410x10x530mm. Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? What other solutions are possible? Thanks for your answer! -- Üdvözlettel, Magyar Gábor

I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the joining method. Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > Hello! > A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. > Printing options: 200x200x300mm. > > The object, 410x10x530mm. > > Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? > What other solutions are possible? > > Thanks for your answer! > > > -- > Üdvözlettel, > Magyar Gábor > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

To select a part of an object, union it with a cube. If you then, without relocating the cube, you difference the cube, that will show what is remaining of the object.  Repeat until you have no object, just a collection  of parts. Knowing the size of object, and the size of the cube (a bit less than the volume of your printable volume, I guess) this repetitive could be be automated. If you made the cube with dovetails in the side, that may or may not increase the strength when you join the printed parts with solvent. On 17/09/2024 12:01, Gábor Magyar via Discuss wrote: > Hello! > A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. > Printing options: 200x200x300mm. > > The object, 410x10x530mm. > > Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? > What other solutions are possible? > > Thanks for your answer! > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org

Which Slicer got a Cut function? Richard Thomas via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> schrieb am Di., 17. Sep. 2024, 13:27: > I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the > joining method. > > Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm > using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. > > On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, < > discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > >> Hello! >> A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. >> Printing options: 200x200x300mm. >> >> The object, 410x10x530mm. >> >> Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? >> What other solutions are possible? >> >> Thanks for your answer! >> >> >> -- >> Üdvözlettel, >> Magyar Gábor >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

The BOSL2 library provides some partition functions that make interlocking cuts at the partition. https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/partitions.scad#section-partioning-into-interlocking-pieces On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > Which Slicer got a Cut function? > > Richard Thomas via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> schrieb am Di., > 17. Sep. 2024, 13:27: > >> I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the >> joining method. >> >> Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm >> using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. >> >> On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, < >> discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. >>> Printing options: 200x200x300mm. >>> >>> The object, 410x10x530mm. >>> >>> Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? >>> What other solutions are possible? >>> >>> Thanks for your answer! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Üdvözlettel, >>> Magyar Gábor >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

Prusa slicer also has a built in cutter with various options for interlocking parts. On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 1:30 PM Adrian Mariano via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > The BOSL2 library provides some partition functions that make interlocking > cuts at the partition. > > > https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/partitions.scad#section-partioning-into-interlocking-pieces > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss < > discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > >> Which Slicer got a Cut function? >> >> Richard Thomas via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> schrieb am Di., >> 17. Sep. 2024, 13:27: >> >>> I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the >>> joining method. >>> >>> Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm >>> using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, < >>> discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. >>>> Printing options: 200x200x300mm. >>>> >>>> The object, 410x10x530mm. >>>> >>>> Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? >>>> What other solutions are possible? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your answer! >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Üdvözlettel, >>>> Magyar Gábor >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

That's great, just don't chop up the big model. It secures the clips between the slices. What I'm currently doing is cutting it apart with blocks and then using another BOSL2 process to add connectors to it. It will cost me a lot of hours, and there is a lot of room for error due to the placement of the clips. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Adrian Mariano via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. szept. 17., K, 22:31): > > The BOSL2 library provides some partition functions that make interlocking cuts at the partition. > > https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/partitions.scad#section-partioning-into-interlocking-pieces > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >> >> Which Slicer got a Cut function? >> >> >> Richard Thomas via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> schrieb am Di., 17. Sep. 2024, 13:27: >>> >>> I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the joining method. >>> >>> Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello! >>>> A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. >>>> Printing options: 200x200x300mm. >>>> >>>> The object, 410x10x530mm. >>>> >>>> Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? >>>> What other solutions are possible? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your answer! >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Üdvözlettel, >>>> Magyar Gábor >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org

Where? How? I found such a function in OrcaSlicer, but it is not a pipe dream. You have to think about the location of the model for cutting. (If I want to cut it in half, it only cuts on the Z axis. So, if the model is lying down, it cuts 10mm in half by 5.) And if the result is still big, you have to rotate it until it looks good. Then I have to break it down into objects, make what I don't want to break up yet(!) disappear. Then break it down into objects again... I would think that if a printer is defined, then a program at least takes into account that it is completely unnecessary to cut a 4 times bigger model one by one, but should offer to cut it to fit the printer bed. In theory, you could also add clips, but it requires a lot of clicking and I saw that it doesn't happen. Ouch. IHC via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. szept. 17., K, 23:32): > > Prusa slicer also has a built in cutter with various options for interlocking parts. > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 1:30 PM Adrian Mariano via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >> >> The BOSL2 library provides some partition functions that make interlocking cuts at the partition. >> >> https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/partitions.scad#section-partioning-into-interlocking-pieces >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >>> >>> Which Slicer got a Cut function? >>> >>> >>> Richard Thomas via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> schrieb am Di., 17. Sep. 2024, 13:27: >>>> >>>> I have used the cut function in the slicer and chosen dovetail as the joining method. >>>> >>>> Don't know if this kind of cutting is available in all slicers, but I'm using the Bambu slicer, which is a fork of Prusa Slicer. >>>> >>>> On Tue, 17 Sept 2024, 12:02 Gábor Magyar via Discuss, <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello! >>>>> A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. >>>>> Printing options: 200x200x300mm. >>>>> >>>>> The object, 410x10x530mm. >>>>> >>>>> Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? >>>>> What other solutions are possible? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your answer! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Üdvözlettel, >>>>> Magyar Gábor >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:35834 BTW it is not that difficult manually, e.g. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4497910 😉 ________________________________ From: Gábor Magyar via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> Sent: 17 September 2024 14:01:48 To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list Cc: Gábor Magyar Subject: [OpenSCAD] too big for printing Hello! A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. Printing options: 200x200x300mm. The object, 410x10x530mm. Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? What other solutions are possible? Thanks for your answer! -- Üdvözlettel, Magyar Gábor

Also remember a2 + b2 = c2 using the diagonal of the build plate. Depending on thickness you can get to ~280mm _____ From: Shaporev, Timur via Discuss [mailto:discuss@lists.openscad.org] Sent: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:43 To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list Cc: Gábor Magyar; Shaporev, Timur Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: too big for printing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:35834 BTW it is not that difficult manually, e.g. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4497910 😉 _____ From: Gábor Magyar via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> Sent: 17 September 2024 14:01:48 To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list Cc: Gábor Magyar Subject: [OpenSCAD] too big for printing Hello! A large shape should be produced with a 3D printer. Printing options: 200x200x300mm. The object, 410x10x530mm. Which library has the knowledge to cut the design to a printable size? What other solutions are possible? Thanks for your answer! -- Üdvözlettel, Magyar Gábor