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Charles Fried

Choosing which face down
November 13, 2013 11:30AM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 27

Hi there,

I have split an object I am trying to print in two half's but I am struggling to work out how to lay the object on it's cut face.
The rotating tools only seem to rotate around the z axis.

Thanks for your help!

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jbernardis

Re: Choosing which face down
November 13, 2013 12:15PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 1,320

There are other tools out there to use. I've used meshlab successfully to rotate and mirror objects. You might also be able to import the STL into openscad and do rotation there. Some people like blender, and you should be able to do it in just about any CAD program.

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Charles Fried

Re: Choosing which face down
November 13, 2013 12:19PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 27

I've rotated several times in Rhino and it still comes up in the same orientation.
I will try Meshlab though.

It seems like Slic3r is missing a very basic function!

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waitaki

Re: Choosing which face down
November 13, 2013 06:23PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 1,592

You can use Netfabb and orient it any way you like - then save the file as an Ascii stl.

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uncle_bob

Re: Choosing which face down
November 13, 2013 09:51PM

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Posts: 1,433

Pleasant3D is another of the many free programs that will quickly fillip an stl around and re-save it. It's a Mac only product. It's not clear what the OP is trying to do this on ....

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Charles Fried

Re: Choosing which face down
November 14, 2013 05:07AM

Registered: 10 years ago
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I'm running Windows through bootcamp, netfab seemed to do the trick.
Thanks for the help!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 05:07AM by Charles Fried.

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uncle_bob

Re: Choosing which face down
November 14, 2013 01:08PM

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Pretty much everything you need runs native on a Mac. There's no real need to do the bootcamp thing unless it's for reasons not related to printing.

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tmorris9

Re: Choosing which face down
November 14, 2013 03:23PM

Registered: 11 years ago
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uncle_bob
Pretty much everything you need runs native on a Mac. There's no real need to do the bootcamp thing unless it's for reasons not related to printing.