Cura Questions - UPDATED - how to cut/split models with cura!

Hey folks, TechNiverse here. I had a few issues with the last video I made on this topic so today we're going to go over how to split models and hopefully this video doesn't end up all choppy and laggy like the last one. Apparently there were some issues people were having with watching it. So the first thing we need to do is I have a model here and I'm going to show you twice how to cut something out of it. The first time we're going to use a standard support square here. So once you click on the model that you want to cut a chunk out of you can click a support blocker you can get that in there. It does drop it to the build plate in this case so it is running well it's just not dropping it to the build plate it's just putting it on the outside. All right so we'll have to move that separately and we'll actually we'll scale it up to 200 and we'll move it we'll make sure it goes all the way through the model. All right so this is basically just going to punch a square hole in my model here. This is just an end bracket for some extrusion with a few screw holes and things like that. Let's go to the per model settings you're going to want to select modify settings for overlap and you're going to want to select cutting mesh. Now remember I'm doing all of this with the piece I want to cut out selected not the piece I want to cut away from. So I haven't selected the bracket I've selected the square hole we're going to be cutting and I'm going to select settings we're going to initiate wall thickness top bottom thickness infill density and generate support. Okay then we'll close that we're going to make sure support is unchecked and we're going to set the rest of these to zero. Okay now when I slice this model it'll take it a minute to slice but give a second there we go and preview mode you can see it has completely cut out that hole. So what if you want to do something a little more complicated. So let's see let's take that out all together let's go back and let's see what I got what do I got here. Okay so instead of using the support square you can also use models that you've made yourself. This is a wheel I made for a rod just as kind of a spacer. So let's take this drag it over here to the middle this one is at the bottom of the build plate because it's not support so it should be all the way through but let's tug it down just a little bit just to be sure. Okay now obviously when I print this if I go all the way through it's going to cut out these pieces as well and it'll print them but they won't be attached to the bracket. So what I'm actually going to do is raise this up so it's just an indent into the model there and then we're going to do the same thing. I'm going to go ahead and go to select the tool I want to use as my cutting tool and then per model settings and cutting match. You're going to again add wall thickness, top bottom thickness, infill density, and support. Now it's important to note on a flat object like this I don't need to add the support and make sure it's unchecked because I'm not using support in my model. If however you're printing something tall or with weird angles you're going to want to make sure that you import that and uncheck it in order to get your cut properly done. So let's slice this we should have a nice indentation of that wheel here soon eventually maybe there we go let's see what it looks like in our slice preview you can see there it is and it did cut all the way through so let's go back take this wheel again here and move it up so it just barely goes in there oh see it's doing that because it's my model it's automatically dropping it to the build plate so let's uncheck that and we'll try it again just try to get that outline in there this is a good way to make parts fit together however I would incorporate some horizontal expansion as well in order to make that fart part excuse me that part fit better in there and there you can see we have the wheel cut out of our object we could go all the way through you can use this for several different things and it works really really well and pretty much flawlessly some of the more complex geometries do take time but that is just a calculation thing on the computer's side and I've yet to see this and not work so let me know if you think that there's a better way to do this down in the comments down below this is actually what these per model settings what one of the things that they're for you can do a lot more with these and we'll get into that in other videos if you have any Kira questions don't forget to leave them down below as I said I'm hoping this video is not as choppy and laggy as the last one I'll just have to double and triple check before I post it this time and we'll watch it before we make it go public so I hope that this was helpful to you leave me a like if it was don't forget to drop your Kira questions in the comments down below I'm always happy to answer your questions and I'll put a playlist at the top of the screen if you're curious that is Kira settings in five minutes or less and it'll go through each of the individual settings over here on the right in their own five minute video and kind of tell you what they do and how to use them and all that so that's going to be it for this video guys, Techniverous out!