Stl part: Untapered cutting of Sliced Stl
You can get this dialog box pressing the 'Cut as Untapered Slices' link located in the 'Cut Sliced Stl Part'
You can use this if you just own a Cnc machine with 2 or 4 linear axes. If you press 'Cut as Untapered Slices' button the following dialog will appear:
Using untapered Slices will probably require more sanding than the Untapered feature, but preparing them is simplest and untapered parts are faster to cut.
Now we will explain in deep every single part of the dialog.
Left side: the parameters and commands
List of Sliced Parts:
You can see listed here all the Sliced part defined in the
previous dialog.
For each item you can see the dz value (the thickness of the foam panel you'll
use then) and the z height where the Slice is placed.
You can also switch off parts Unchecking them.
When you go then to export/cut them, you can also select all the Slices with
the same thickness of the selected one just by pressing the 'Check all Parts
with the same dz of the selected one' button.
Other parameters and buttons:
Middle side: the 2D preview
In the 2D preview you will see the geometry of the actual
sliced element as a XY section.
You can navigate the sections by selecting a different item in the Sliced
parts list, or just moving the vertical cursor placed at the left side of
the 2D preview.
Pressing the 'Fit to screen' button you will maximize the drawing to the 2D preview window size.
Right side: the 3D preview
You can see here the 3D Preview of the Stl part (optional) and all the checked
Sliced parts
The actual Sliced part will be rendered as Red.
If you have the STL part enabled and you see some part of it out of the Sliced
part, you can increase the Section interpolation type or
Apply a larger Added Offset to Contours
value.