STL file settings, overlapping or self intersecting facets

Help.

I have printed a few things and it seems that I can suddenly not get anything to slice correctly with any version of Slic3r. Maybe I am doing something wrong?

I keep getting the error:-

"The model has overlapping or self intersecting facets. I tried to repair it, however you might want to check the results..."

As far as I can make out there is nothing wrong with my model (created in Solidworks and trying both binary and Asci outputs...

Latest thing it wont slice is a tiny little magic wand model...

Does anyone know what causes this error? Is these something I can do?

This is the latest super simple part that wont slice
[www.gsport.co.uk]

Any help much appreciated..

George

Process the part through cloud.netfabb.com and try again. I use SolidWorks frequently and the STLs it creates are pretty messy.

In general, if any slicer gives an error when processing a model, put it through cloud.netfabb.com first and see if that fixes it. 90% of the time it will solve your problem.

That is great thanks, fixed it no problem... seems ridiculous that such an expensive piece of software as SW cant generate proper STL's...

It looks like this is going to be a recurring problem, should I download the basic version of the studio? Does anyone know how much the professional version is?

George

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2012 03:58PM by gsport.