I am using cura and cant get this thing to resize in cura or drop to the bed either.
Anyone else using cura??
Anyone else using cura??
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I'm blessed with an AnkerMake printer and its slicer is super-basic but super-simple
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There's a button marked "drop to bed" which seems to work for me. I know it reads STL files - whether its output works with your printer, I dunno
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There's a button marked "drop to bed" which seems to work for me. I know it reads STL files - whether its output works with your printer, I dunno
Why do some do this and others don't?Yes. It's a chore. I scaled it by 0.1 then fiddle around with the XYZ. Get Z sorted first by sighting along the horizontal. Then move X.Y individually until the shadow falls over the bed...
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I am sure there is in cura . But I could not remember where it is. LolThere's a button marked "drop to bed" which seems to work for me. I know it reads STL files - whether its output works with your printer, I dunno
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It's an issue with the STL file format not scaling the model correctly.
Middle is lay flat (cura has it's best guess at laying flat).
Right is select face to align to build plate.
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Did the .3mf not work then??
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You are selecting the stl before you select the lay flat?Found it but sadly it does not work
Sorry mate. Looked at the reply on my phone and did not notice you had converted it for me.
Wife is doing my head in today. ..aaarrgh
It's now printing will update you in an hour or so....
I think so ..but I will check later. Screwdriver has sorted this one for me but need to check for futures models/teacher strikes..
First you need to select the object you want to orientate, or the menu won't even show.Found it but sadly it does not work
Lay flat will lay the object flat on the nearest flat surface, which is often not the surface you want to lay flat.
The other option , you then need to click on the face you'd like to align.
However if the object is floating above/below the bed, those options simply align the face to the bed, they don't place it 'on' the bed.
To do that, select the move option (4 way arrow in the menu), then click the vertical arrow and drag the object up above the bed, and release. It should then drop on to the bed.
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I have not experienced a model like this in Cura. It is so far away from the origin that the interface makes it very difficult to orient the model. So you can drag X and Y until the cows come home but there's no easy way to tell if it's getting closer of further from zero.
The only way I could recover it was to bring the bed to eye level and drag Z until they align. Then looking down from above (as much as is possible in Cura, drag X, move, drag X ad see which way you moved etc.
So it was a tricky one. Undefined or incorrect scale and miles off origin. This is why I suspect I will have to move away from STL and get into STEP (so to speak).
<edit> I should have imported into Sketchup, edited the scale and origin then re-export as STL but that would have defeated to object which was to answer the original question. Plus manipulating large mesh files is a chore on my system.
The only way I could recover it was to bring the bed to eye level and drag Z until they align. Then looking down from above (as much as is possible in Cura, drag X, move, drag X ad see which way you moved etc.
So it was a tricky one. Undefined or incorrect scale and miles off origin. This is why I suspect I will have to move away from STL and get into STEP (so to speak).
<edit> I should have imported into Sketchup, edited the scale and origin then re-export as STL but that would have defeated to object which was to answer the original question. Plus manipulating large mesh files is a chore on my system.
It's actually on thingiverse....
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It's a minefield trying to find decent models on Thingiverse. The number of times I've seen "battery module for XYZ tool" "let me know if it works"...It's actually on thingiverse....
Yeah. No! Next!
