Hello gr5,
I believe this was created with solidworks, I received a sldprt file and used edrawings to export it to stl. The walls should be much thicker (I would like something around 0.8 to 1.0). I tried to make the walls thicker within Cura but that made no difference. I will definitely try netfabb and see if it fixes the issue, otherwise I will open it in another cad program and try to thicken the walls before exporting it.
I appreciate you taking the time to respond and I will post how the repair goes.
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gr5 2,224
The 3rd photo - support "touching buildplate" is probably what you want - I'd try that first. You don't need support for those things that stick out.
Okay so your model isn't solid. What CAD software did you use? Try passing it through this netfab repair service:
https://service.netfabb.com/login.php
You have to create an account but it will repair your STL for free.
Also try viewing your part in "xray" mode. (top selection "preview mode" left selection "x-ray view"). blue and white areas are good. Red areas are a problem. For example if your walls are infinitely thin then it will print nothing (infinitely thin is nothing in 3 dimensions). Or if your walls are < line width *2 it may also print nothing. So if your line width is 0.4 you want the walls at least 0.8. You can also select the checkbox "print thin walls" which let's you go down to around 0.4mm thick walls I think. how thick are your walls?
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