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Ultimaker / Cura

3D printer / slicing GUI built on top of the Uranium framework
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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cura 2.4.0 #1666

Closed jamesjfc123 closed 7 years ago

jamesjfc123 commented 7 years ago

I have designed a file in sketchup. When I brought it into Cura everything looked the same. I then checked the layers and it changed my model filling in holes that I did not want to be filled in.

fieldOfView commented 7 years ago

I have designed a file in sketchup.

There's your problem. Sketchup lets you create meshes that are horrible for 3d printing, because Sketchup was not designed for 3d printing.

You can try to turn on/off some of the mesh fixes in Cura, but your best path towards succesfull 3d printing is learning a different modeling application.

jamesjfc123 commented 7 years ago

Thank you. What software would you suggest I use in place of sketchup.

fieldOfView commented 7 years ago

I hear good things about TinkerCAD and Fusion360. But there's also Onshape and DesignSpark Mechanical. All are free for non-commercial work.

jamesjfc123 commented 7 years ago

Thank you.

fieldOfView commented 7 years ago

If you feel your question has been sufficiently answered, feel free to close the issue (both of them)