Onshape Loft tool function
Hi All,
I have just been creating a model for an air pump on Onshape been using it for a couple of weeks, just found a bug when importing the model into PS 2.4.2 with the loft tool, this is how you taper edges in Onshape when you do this Prusa slicer gives out errors in the coding try to fix the model and all it does is fills in all the inside features, I did some playing around and it turned out to be the loft feature for some reason this is not supported in the stl of obj exports, is this something that can be addressed? I didn't think it should have been an issue but once I took the loft features out the model sliced correctly.
RE:
It's not a bug in slicer. The lofting is most likley creating a non-manifold model, that's fine in 3d space but not in the real world, you might try adding a shell to your lofted object and see if that helps. Slicer will show errors if the model is not manifold.
Regards
Swiss_Cheese
The Filament Whisperer
RE: Onshape Loft tool function
Thanks I will give this ago as I couldn’t find anything on this issue
RE:
@martin-darch
I don't know how far you've gotten with this, however if your still seeing errors in slicer I might suggest after exporting your model, you use a program like Blender to check and see if if your model is Manifold, I could suggest Fusion 360 which might appeal to you also, and is kinda free, but wont be for much longer. So I like to suggest software that is powerful, and will be free forever. If you can afford software just buy something like a 3DS Studio Max, or a SolidWorks subscription. These will solve your problems by producing correctly formed meshes for the most part. Allowing for direct export. In all fairness if you can afford to pay you could afford to learn Fusion 360 also But Autodesk are basically drug pushers.
Good luck
Swiss_Cheese
The Filament Whisperer