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Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?

Posted by evamvid

evamvid

Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?
October 24, 2015 07:38PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 17

Hi!

Are there any tools that can help me cut a model in halves to print (to fit on my bed)? I have it in OpenSCAD and as an STL. I'm trying to avoid just using subtraction with appropriately sized rectangles.

Thanks!
evamvid

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george4657

Re: Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?
October 24, 2015 11:13PM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 119

If you are on windows download netfabb for stls
[www.netfabb.com]
Free version is all you need

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frankvdh

Re: Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?
October 25, 2015 12:29AM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 978

Slic3r allows you to cut objects at a Z value that you specify.

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cristian

Re: Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?
October 25, 2015 04:45AM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 344

What is the reason for not using Openscad itself to do the job?

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jbernardis

Re: Are there any tools that can help me cut an OpenSCAD or STL in half for printing?
October 27, 2015 10:24AM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 1,320

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cristian
What is the reason for not using Openscad itself to do the job?

yes - exactly. If you have an openscad model, just superimpose a cube over the object where half of the object is inside the cube and half is outside.

then you can do a difference to get one half and an intersection to get the other half.