Exporting Supports from Command Line
Hi everyone - I already tried to look for this topic but I cannot find it at all. I want to export a model with its tree supports (for SLA printing) directly from the command line. I have simple models that do not need manual re-work during supporting but I also want to have the stl files. Is there a possibility? The only command line options I can see are --export-stl, which exports without support and --export-sla, which only puts it out as images and not as a 3d model.
The only way to do so is to do an export as sl1s and then load this again and save it as an stl - but this increases the model size a lot and decreases the quality... and I did not see that you cannot import sl1s files from the command line so this also does not work at all... Any other options?
PS is a slicer, the image stack is what the UV screen needs to print...
If you want to include custom supports in an stl or 3mf then that's a job for your design software.
Cheerio,
RE: Exporting Supports from Command Line
I understand what you try to tell me but I beg to differ about this... Supports are something that belong to 3d printing and therefore I think it is paced better in the slicer.
My whole problem is not that it's not possible at all (you can export the supported stl by hand in prusa slicer) - I want to automate this and could not find the option in the command line interface. Can anyone Actually help me here? Thank you very much!
RE: Exporting Supports from Command Line
If I understand what you are trying to do, you can do this in Meshmixer, which is free. See
Mk3S+,SL1S
RE: Exporting Supports from Command Line
I doubt that you understand what I want - meshmixer cannot do this from the command line... and that's the entire point I'm asking for: A command-line tool (that you can run automatically) that can create supports.
RE: Exporting Supports from Command Line
Good luck with that.
Mk3S+,SL1S
RE: Exporting Supports from Command Line
You are more likely to get an answer by asking at the Prusa Slicer github. https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc
If the command line doesnt support the export of the stl with the generated supports then you can also put in a feature request there too.