Any ideas how to cut this 3D DNA model into sandwich layers to print

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Any ideas how to cut this 3D DNA model into sandwich layers to print them separately and later glue them together? http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:39852

I’ve been trying to print this for over a week without success… Even tried Meshmixer 2.0… Nothing works.

3D tools I have access to:
SketchUp 2013
123 Design
Tinkercad
SolidWorks 2013

Any help is truly appreciated!!

Thanks

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With NetFabb you can cut objects. You have have to slice it manually though.

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Netfabb the online app?

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No, the free download version.

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you can use OpenSCAD

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You should be able to do it in TinkerCAD as well

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https://tinkercad.com/things/2bMVuHwcmzj-dna-slice

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Haven’t tested it well, but I have a python script for doing this:

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It just watched this last night so good timing, the video is not very good but i still can see what is going on. This is splitting parts in SolidWorks.

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You can also do this with slic3r. See the bottom of the manual page at
http://manual.slic3r.org/VariableLayerHeight.html