1 Topic by mm2tts

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Topic: Nettfab and Kisslicer

I export STls from SolidWorks and when I bring them into Nettfab, there is nothing wrong with them. When I bring them into Kisslicer I always see orange highlights along some edges that I'm assuming are errors that Kisslicer thinks are there. Why the different interpretations?

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Re: Nettfab and Kisslicer

The orange edges in KISSlicer as just notifications that there *may* be problems with that edge. 

KISSlicer will flag actual bad edges (for example an edge that only has one triangle attached to it, or an edge where the neighboring triangles are 'wound' differently (essentially one pointing in, one pointing out)).  But KISSlicer will also flag edges that are technically legal, but may give numerically unstable results, such as high-aspect ratio triangles, or 0-area triangles (commonly used to "fix" T-junctions).

I just load the mesh and slice.  Then I scan through the paths looking for anything weird, and if it happens next to an orange edge, I know I need to fix something in the source mesh.  If nothing weird shows up, ignore the orange edges.  [8^)

Jonathan

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Re: Nettfab and Kisslicer

Are you the Jonathan that wrote Kisslicer? Great piece of software! Is there an updated version coming out anytime soon?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: Nettfab and Kisslicer

Yep.  Thanks!  Yes, working on getting the Beta of KISSlicer 1.1 out ASAP.

Jonathan