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April 29, 2020 at 9:55 pm #1520394

blinky465

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Maybe ask around at a local hackspace? They usually have 3d printers you can use for a reasonable price/free.

You *can* print multiple sections on top of each other, but you need to be careful that residual heat doesn’t cause them all to fuse together during printing! (like those chainmail models, in theory they print as a single piece and “just work” but very often you find supposedly free pieces fuse together).

If you’re not sure about the quality of your .stl files, there’s the online service from Autocad called netfabb (I think it’s integrated into the prusa slicer but I’m not sure). Just create an autodesk account, sign in to netfabb and upload your design – it’ll find any “non-manifold” sections and try to correct any non-joining sections or pieces with tiny gaps in them.

I try to run my models through netfabb before printing, it solves a lot of slicing problems!