1 Topic by roughtyper

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Topic: Slice STL at an angle. XYZ of extrusion varies simultaneously.

I want to slice and print objects at an angle to the bed. 

An example of an application is in the top left of this image:  http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files … ingpad.jpg

Anyone heard of something like this?

The only thing I could think of it to apply a transformation matrix to every point in the STL, slice it, then apply a reverse transformation matrix to each point in the sliced gcode.  Doable, but...man...

2 Reply by fred_dot_u

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Re: Slice STL at an angle. XYZ of extrusion varies simultaneously.

I realize this post is a few months old, but perhaps I can offer a suggestion of sorts. I'm not entirely sure I understand the big picture, but I did see the portion of the image you posted.

I've been playing around with OpenSCAD, which allows one to import an STL file. The imported model can be rotated in all three axes. As I write this, I realize that almost any modeling program will allow such actions.

OpenSCAD also allows one to slice the model and export the slice in a DXF file.

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