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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