Hi - I have a model that has horizontal and vertical piping made from the Bent Pipe generator in the Community Shapes. When I export the .STL and bring it into 3D Simplify, they appear fine when the model shows in the virtual printer bed, but when I send to prepare for print, all the horizontal piping disappears and won't print. Is this a glitch in the Bent Pipe generator or am I doing something wrong on my end? I'm still new at all this, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Glenn Reimche Hi Jay
I made Bent Pipe, could you share your design or a copy of it so I could take a look?
Thanks...
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Christian Can you attach the STL here? We can take a look. You may need to increase the quality or resolution of your print settings?
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jay 347 Hi Christian and Glenn,
I am linking to a modified version of the STL. I don't believe I have the usage rights to release the entire model so I'm only enclosing the pieces that are comprised of the bent pipe generator and attached objects. I understand this may modify the functionality/printability.
In the interim, I have completely replaced these pipes with solid cylinders and an elbow shape and it finally printed. I'm not sure what the issue was.
Thank you for looking into it!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/irdylvnzgg4dc4p/bent_pipe.stl?dl=0
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Glenn Reimche Did you use Tinkercad Legacy or Beta?
Can you tell me which version of Bent Pipe you used? Did it have these options:
Or just these:
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jay 347 Pretty sure it was/is Beta. Sometimes I find it keeps switching on me, but I know I was able to adjust the lead in length/lead out length. So whichever that was...
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Glenn Reimche Hi Christian, thanks for jumping back in :)
I asked about Legacy / beta because there are 2 versions of Bent Pipe available in Legacy.
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Christian Legacy and Beta use the same geometry engine, so I wouldn't pin it on that. I open this export in Meshmixer and perform a separate shells and see that there are a bunch of extra geometry that is not really visible. I just deleted them and reexported and here is probalby what yo are looking for:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz24U54d5X4HakJVV3kxc1Ezczg
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jay 347 Thanks, Christian. Opening this up in Meshlab I still see geometry holes in different parts of the piping. I'm not at all skilled in model/geometry cleanup tho, so maybe that's normal!
Here is a Tinkercad version of the model with the bent pipe and base if it helps:
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