Hi
Can someone tell me if its possible to start a Print midway up a model , flat on the bed. ( Simplify3D ) I have a object and don’t want the bottom half of it. I know I can go into 3D software and cut the piece off that I don’t want.
I need to Start the print at 107.32mm up the print. I am using Simplify3D
Thanks
Yes just offset the model into the bed in the slicer. It will ignore everything below the bed during slicing.
Scratch that - reread your question. Sorry, not sure how to do that in the slicer/printer (short of opening the gcode file and deleting all the bottom lines and running some crazy regex/math find/replace on the subsequent Z coordinates…). Shudder. I’ll stick to truncating in Tinkercad…
Download netfabb free. Open model in netfabb. Right click on the part and select Cut. Use the sliders on the right of the screen to move the cuts along the part in each axis. Apply cuts. Right click on top part, export to stl. Run that through your preferred slicer and tadaa.
Thanks Guys , appreciate the help. I went with what you recommend to cut it with Netfabb. Can not find a way to start a print halfway up the model. Printing the cut part now. What happened was my previous print stopped printing and so I am printing the rest and then I glue the two together.
You don’t know how to move the part down into the bed in Simplify3D @Vaughan_Lundin ?
Find the last Gcode you printed in your print log. Open the whole Gcode and delete everything from the beginning up to that point. Position your printer using the given X and y and z coordinates. Use the remaining Gcode to finish the print.
I did add 107.32mm to the Z Offset ( under Update Machine Definition Tab ) in Simplify 3D and part moved below the bed in the Preview, however when the print started printing, it printed up in the air. Not sure why the preview shows the model below the bed however it prints in the air.
Thanks @Greg_Nutt , I remember that next time before loosing the log details.