Wont Slice Articulated - Githubissues

Dicealope commented 1 month ago

Cura Version

5.8

Operating System

Windows 11

Printer

Anycubic Predator

Name abnormal settings

No response

Describe model location

No response

Describe your model

I've printed articulated before, but that was a few updates ago.

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AP_butterfly dragon f (1).zip

HellAholic commented 1 month ago

I can slice the model included in the project file, but it takes around 11 (642.829s) minutes to slice with your settings. The print will also take 42h 3m 18s. I'm not sure what issue you encountered during the slice but could you maybe explain a bit more? Did you get a slice crash/slice fail or Unable to slice message?

GregValiant commented 1 month ago

Thanks for the report. I used Cura Mesh Tools to check the model. Check summary:

butterfly dragon f (1).stl is not watertight and may not print properly and consists of 38 submeshes

This is a full report: --> 0 Naked edges (?) --> 0 Planar holes (?) --> 0 Non-planar holes (?) --> 6 Non-manifold edges (?) --> 10 Inverted faces (?) --> 0 Degenerate faces (?) --> 0 Duplicate faces (?) --> 0 Disjoint shells (?) -> Repairing: 100.00% ----- Repair completed in 41193ms ------ -> Vertex count changed from 219225 to 219772 (+547) -> Triangle count changed from 438610 to 440258 (+1648) Those might be minor errors or the "Non-manifold edges" might be wide open enough that Cura is becoming confused about where the outside ends and the inside begins as it slices across an opening in the mesh.

This is the repaired model. It took 18.8 minutes to slice at your 0.12 layer height and 0.20 line width. As you can see this is a 42 hour print.

I'll leave the bug label on this for now but it looks to be (at least partly) a model problem. Let us know if repairing the model fixes the problem for you. FIY the worst model I've seen around here also happened to be an articulated model called a "Crystal Dragon" and it had over 30,000 errors in it. It wouldn't slice and it was too bad to repair.

LilBub commented 1 month ago

@GregValiant I've printed a lot of articulated models that alert of an issue but slice/print fine.
How are you repairing them? Inside Mesh Tools?

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