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Ya I am just using blender because I already use it, and as gr5 said press the shortcuts without even thinking. I also do not want to learn how to use a different CAD. Modeling for 3D prints will be different because I do not need it to be super big number of polygons. instead I just need to focus on having the detail where it is needed, and no where else. It will just take me some time to get better at it.

I got the number of triangles down to 5.492 before losing to much quality. It now takes about 1 min to slice. While making the model I did not think that more triangles would be harder to slice so I put a lot of sub divisions to make the corners of the tree more rounded. I could probably get the triangles down to 3k if I remodel while trying to only add more faces on the parts that will stand out. I just saw that as I printed out the last piece of the tree.

Thank you soo much! I will try to decimate my model and see how that turns out. I use blender and sadly it does not have I was to reduce the triangles when exporting, but there are other was that I can try.

OK Thank you soo much! I will try using 1 monitor for slicing.

Thank you guys soo much! I got a video of the real reason why I posted this. The video is at the bottom. Sorry about me not knowing my specs at all. Here is what "Settings > System > About" has. The Model is 4 mb big. 34,457 Vertices. 105,022 edges. 70,415 faces. I am going to print the tree in smaller parts, because I had a half size print of the tree going upside down. Cura said it should take 24 hours and it did break 9 hours through the print. I was slicing a test part for a mechanism to lock the parts together and Cura crashed and the wired visual glitch happened so I recorded it. Sadly I was not recording before Cura crashed. I think this will only happen if you have 2+ monitors. here is the video.

I want to print a christmas tree, so I made myself one in blender and imported it into Ultimaker Cure. I sliced the model so I know how long it would take to print and it said 13 days! I have a RTX 3050, 6gb of ram (EDIT: 16gb), and a intel core i7 (EDIT: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz), and it took more then 5 minuets to slice (I do not know if that is slow). At the start of the slice it was using 70% of my CPU, and only about 1-2gb of ram. About halfway through the progress bar stopped and my CPU went down to about 30%, but started using 3gb of ram! then it started moving very slowly and it started to use 3.5-4gb of ram and 70% of my CPU. At the last 4th of the slice my CPU started maxing out and it was still using 3.5-4 gb. when it did finish everything got super laggy. When I was looking at the preview my PC started braking. I restarted my PC and it went back to normal. So I messed around with some settings to get it down to 9 days, and same thing happened when it was slice. I eventually realized that I could print the tree upside down to lower the print to 5 days and again same thing happened. Sadly the visual glitch is not happening when I record. I will update this when I get the footage. But here is a video recording of the slice. EDIT: The wired glitch did happen later. here are the videos.