Advanced slicing of a helix – Professional

Whats up,

I ponder if anybody is aware of of a method to take away the round faces of this mannequin whereas leaving slots within the uprights in some type of automated or world manner?

I can do it with part planes and Zorro2, however it takes a number of slices per upright and nonetheless leaves me with the slots stuffed in. I additionally tried Eneroth Slicer, however it crashes with so many faces.

What I’m attempting to do is go from this:

To a set of uprights solely, which appear like this:

Thanks,
Cameron

CSL-extra-coil-10-2-1.skp (14.7 MB)

If the geometry of all of your uprights have been in a single strong element or group and helix is one other single strong group or element, Subtract from the Stable Instruments, Eneroth Stable Instruments, or BoolTools 2 ought to have the ability to create the notches in a single course of.

I made an instance.

I might recommend skipping using supplies in your mannequin that you’re establishing for 3D printing. They are going to simply gradual issues down.

@DaveR, you’re the man!

It took about 7 minutes to carry out, however labored like a champ.

Thanks for the tip concerning the textures. Will do.

(Sorry some cause, the gif file dimension limitet to 5MB – istened of 10 beforehand – so the standard is lowered too… )

Then you should use Rotate device to make an array of the brand new element.