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Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:30 am
by rabbit
Hi to all,
usually I model my things on my own but this thing (
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:359618) looks really nice and I want to print it.
Now I have a little problem; Mattercontrol tells me it is to complex and will result in possible failures. If I continue anyway Mattercontrol takes forever and even can't render it.
Does anyone have an idea how I could get this thing on my Rostock? I tried KISS-Slicer but either I made something wrong (bet that) or there must be another way.
Thank you all

Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:43 am
by geneb
The instructions say it should be printed with 100% infill, 0.3 layers and 2 "shells" (walls, perimeters, etc). The original was also made with a 0.4mm nozzle.
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Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:13 am
by rabbit
yes, but I don't get to that point.
Mattercontrol takes forever to slice that thing. I tried KISS and the gcode file starts to print and in the middle of the first layer I a get a sd-failure message!

Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:18 am
by rabbit
is there a max size for the gcode files? it is about 60mb
Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:55 am
by joe
Took S3D 53 seconds to slice.
Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:58 pm
by gestalt73
KISSlicer takes a few minutes to slice. I ran the file with 250 micron layers, and the resulting gcode file is ~49Mb.
One thing I did notice was that KISS needed around 2.6G of member to complete the slicing. This is a big model. Are you running short on system memory?
Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 4:10 pm
by rabbit
I have 32GB ram, so I don't think that's the problem.
Is there a way to print with KISS without SD-card?
I tried severall times with Cura and KISS to slice...
copied to SD-card and inserted into the printer.
Sometimes I don't see any files on the LCD and sometimes the print stops after aprox 40 secs!!!
Took another SD-card to check the card. Same result!
So sad

Anyone any idea? Can anyone slice this thing for me? RostockV2 with complete V3 upgrade.
Thank sou very much so far
Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 4:18 pm
by rabbit
sometimes LCD showed a failure when the print hang up like "card read failure" or something similar. should have wrote it down.

Re: Model to complex to slice?!
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 9:34 am
by rabbit
ok, the problem seems to be the SD-card.
the topic can be closed...
thank you so much for helping.
wish you all a merry christmas