Hi Dane

I find that when you have 4 tubes like that, that share a common top if you draw a line down the centre and cut across front and side views
When each meets at an exact surface they will union easily giving a nice clean solid.



When I draw jewellery and have printed , I do not join the individual parts , as long as they intersect each other the slicing programs are able to slice the stl file for printing.
The main problem is if you have duplicate objects on top of each other.

The slicing program for solidscape printers can handle non joined parts.


I am currently looking at a Kevvox resin printer that runs K studio which can join the parts as part of the print operation
I will let you know how I get on.

http://kevvox.com/3d-printers/sp-series/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzNDtwTYLMo

cheers
shayne

Hey guys,

So when I said that I had that problem with slicing it was in V2 and not in V3. The results that I got are attached.

So after doing the union in V3, I was able to print it and the finished results of that are also attached!

In regards to your answer Shayne, that looks like an awesome solution and would have and will be the solution I will use if I run into this in another form. I would have created a hub but I like your solution much better. With keeping the parts separate you never have problems with it treating items as separate when printed?

Thanks Mike and Shayne.

Regards,

Dane

Hi Dane, it turned out great!

I'm glad that the tune-ups in v3 were able to solve that problem.

- Michael

Just thought to add that if you make use of a 3D printing service like Shapeways, intersecting parts will be auto-Booleaned, so you don't need to do that yourself first.