Martin Wynne
Admin
- Location
- West of the Severn UK
- Info
.
The Formware online mesh fixer service is excellent. But being free it has its limits, one of which is a 4-minute timeout on processing time for each job file. Plus often it is necessary to wait in a queue for access to the processor.
This doesn't affect us for the timbering bricks, but it is very limiting for the chair files. For Templot's chairs it means a maximum of only about 30 chairs in a file. The result is that most jobs have to be split down to several smaller files, each of which has to be separately uploaded for fixing. And then they must all be assembled on the build plate for the slicer. All of which is doable, but it's a lot of time and trouble.
With a lot of additional program coding on the chairs I could probably reduce the amount of fixing needed, and get more than 30 chairs in a file. But it would be a lot of work, and even then may not make a significant difference.
So I have raided the Templot funds and purchased a copy of the Formware slicer. This runs a copy of the same mesh repair/fixer on your own machine, without any timeouts.
I'm happy to provide a service of doing mesh repairs for folks if needed, providing it doesn't get out of hand. Just post your STL file here, and I will post the repaired file here as soon as I can.
I haven't yet tried the Formware slicer in comparison with Chitubox. No doubt there are some differences, but I'm happy using Chitubox (free) for now.
cheers,
Martin.
The Formware online mesh fixer service is excellent. But being free it has its limits, one of which is a 4-minute timeout on processing time for each job file. Plus often it is necessary to wait in a queue for access to the processor.
This doesn't affect us for the timbering bricks, but it is very limiting for the chair files. For Templot's chairs it means a maximum of only about 30 chairs in a file. The result is that most jobs have to be split down to several smaller files, each of which has to be separately uploaded for fixing. And then they must all be assembled on the build plate for the slicer. All of which is doable, but it's a lot of time and trouble.
With a lot of additional program coding on the chairs I could probably reduce the amount of fixing needed, and get more than 30 chairs in a file. But it would be a lot of work, and even then may not make a significant difference.
So I have raided the Templot funds and purchased a copy of the Formware slicer. This runs a copy of the same mesh repair/fixer on your own machine, without any timeouts.
I'm happy to provide a service of doing mesh repairs for folks if needed, providing it doesn't get out of hand. Just post your STL file here, and I will post the repaired file here as soon as I can.
I haven't yet tried the Formware slicer in comparison with Chitubox. No doubt there are some differences, but I'm happy using Chitubox (free) for now.
cheers,
Martin.
message ref: 4747