Is this a Slicer issue - or something else entirely?

[wireless 0]

Model prints fine - but only up to layer 16!  Can anyone shed any light on the issue please?

 

I designed a penholder in Fusion 360, exported as a .stl file, sliced it in Cura, and every time I get an issue when printing at at layer 16 that causes me to abort the job.

I tried three times now, in two different materials. The printer has been fine and everything else prints well in both PLA and PETG, so I'm left with either a design or a slicing error (or both?).

 

Thank you.

 

Design.stl

Edited November 25, 2020 by wireless

[Smithy 1,145]

The base of your pen holder is not solid, therefore the top of the base is printed in the air.

You have to design a solid model, to get an infill there.

 

[wireless 0]

Oops.

Thanks so much Smithy. I appreciate your help.

 

It's a much better solution than a faulty machine, so I'm glad it turned out to be my design error!

[Smithy 1,145]

You are welcome. I think you can do a quick fix in Fusion 360.

Just press Q in F360 and select the bottom of the base to do a push pull and extrude it over the existing extrusion. Just make sure you select in the property window JOIN and not CUT.

[wireless 0]

I checked my work and found the mistake - when I added the actual penholders to the base, the Extrude command was set to 'New Body', instead of 'Join'. Rooky mistake I know.

Thanks again.

[Smithy 1,145]

A good practice is also to use the section analysis in F360 to cut through the model and check how if looks like from the inside.