"Modeling" with PrusaSlicer? Modifier meshes tutorial
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- Learn more + links for model files:
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That has been there for a long time? Why am I only learning about it today? That slicer software is incredible!
Agreed. In fairness I only started playing around with (Slic3r style) when PrusaSlicer was launched, but after a few months? with it, I can't believe I missed that in PrusaSlicer!
@Suicide Kyd They developed that slicer for their printers. I understand why they only maintain profiles for their own printers, but they support custom profiles which is a good effort. They have no obligation to support competitors
I just started learning how to use the modifier meshes, so glad there was a video created explaining how these work
These work really well to create interesting maker-coins and key chains. Having hollow areas with patterns goes a long way to make them look special. Great tips and tutorial!
This is outstanding! Solves a problem I’ve been having where I wanted to remove infill from a specific area of a model.
This is pretty damn incredible
I sometimes used modifiers in Slic3r. Now I know that I have to explore PrusaSlicer deeper and maybe make a final switch. Please make more video tutorials about that great software!
This is why I LOOOOOOVVVVEEE Prusa Slicer. There is no other slicer I like period!
Well Cura can do all the same stuff
@@hansdietrich83 I used to use cura, but to be honest I absolutely hate it. The User interface is horrible
Thanks for the quick tutorial. I printed myself a cool phone case with exploded infill and a Cali cat pattern using this video as a guide. It turned out amazing. Thank you.
Superb work mikolas, jo and team! Prusa slicer 2.0 is truly a treat to use now aswell!
Thank you! ❤
That's fantastic. I love the new Prusa Slicer and hope to set it up for my Borg (CR-10s4) soon too.
I used modifier meshes to make a anniversary gift for my mom and dad as shape of laying heart with top cut off and no top layers and infill and then decorated the interiror with only 4 layers or honeycomb infill. Used Scarlett Red PETG Prusament. Turned out really pretty and my mom loved it. The modifier meshes are really powerful tools.
Wow, I never thought about using modifiers like that. Awesome video!
Your knowledge always impresses me Mikolas!
I have been telling people about modifier meshes for a long time (in slic3r), but they were kind of hard to use, and almost no documentation. Thanks for fixing that!
Some really cool functions. I’ll be sure to try them out.
Oooo this is neat! I need more of these tips!
Excellent video, new to Prusaslicer,, old hand at Cura. Some struggles to get the program running with an Ender 3 printer, but once configured it's good. This video has some powerful techniques anyone can use to modify prints and be very creative. I easily changed a product we make by modifyiing and removing skin layers. Looking forward to working with the software !
Many thanks !!
the best slicer, fantastic. Thanks mr. Prusa.
Just used it for the first time today, thank you.
Great to hear about modifiers by layer height is coming. Would be great to be able to insert custom gcode between specific layers too.
I'm glad I didn't change to cura haha!!
hell yeah I learned something new today!
This is AWESOME!!!! How can we don't see more of this? It is 2022 already ppl!
Thank you for the video, it was very useful for me.
Nice walk through
Thanks for sharing :-)
4:45 This is exactly what I was looking for, when I found this video. Thanks!
Very, very nice slicer. Usability and performance are great. Moving away from S3D. A workflow suggestion please - make the planes for layer height changes movable by the mouse, like you have for cut. The precision of a numerical entry is great and essential but getting the planes close to where they are needed at the start is tedious ... lots of numeric entry until the final value is achieved. (using prusaslicer 2.2).
This has knocked out S3D out of Prusa printers' needs.
That's a sweet little feature
This is a great feature. Another one I would really like to see is the ability to select a specific extruder for support materials (I use an MMU2S). It would be great if I had the option to force all my supports to be a specific color, or if I want to use dissolvable supports only. Maybe this is already an option but it's difficult to figure out how to use it?
These techniques are GREAT for putting a hole in re-sized decorative models to become jewelry. I also find saving SAE size cylinders with 0 infill and 0 layer thickness to put holes in mechanical objects where metric sizes don't fit available US hardware sizes. Just Load as subtools or add Modifier Part by editing object! Newest PrusaSlicer is great advertising of the all-around Quality I got from just purchasing a high-quality Prusa 3D Printer. Prusa Research is the Best in Class.
love you man from pakistan user prusa sharing public tips trick
Nice little video
Thank you very much!
Nice. I just made a fish tank cover with this method. Wife said it was the first useful thing I printed.
Been waiting for the layer height modifiers. However I have a problem with mesh modifiers. When changing the print speed for a portion of the model (overhang), it works as expected except for adding extra perimeters and basically treating the mesh modifier as a "part" with visible parting lines in the outer perimeters of the model and making it ugly by adding seams. Internally it makes less of a difference in this instance, but it would be nice to have a mesh modifier that can affect speed without messing up the rest of the settings or treating the borders of a modifier as a seperate shell. Being able to control speed for overhangs and limit it to the specific area instead of slowing down whole layers would change the game in a significant way.
Very cool! Looks just like the launch pad I made for my levitating Starship model in one of my videos :) I should have tried out exposing the mesh, would have been cool!
What filament did you use in this video? It look nice and smooth.
Nice!
Thank you so much for sharing! This would otherwise be so much harder in Fusion 360
Can this be used to create test towers that change hot end temperature, etc? If so, a video tutorial on using this feature to calibrate different filaments would be really nice.
Also, perhaps a test file that repeatedly goes through load to nozzle cycle of MMU with different temperatures and cooling moves? That is a different subject but it is something that interests me.
Currently using this to change the look of Devin's Polypanels...looking good so far.
Update, I might need to adjust the settings because there's a little bit of stringing issue. Besides that they looks great.
Was day dreaming about this and stumbled upon this video after having to replace the pet tube jam. Things are looking up.
Thank You!!!!!
Awesome video! Do you think there is anyway to do something similar with Simplify3D?
Another thing you can use the modifier meshes for (I've used it to good effect before) is if you only want to print a part of your model. This could be because that's all you want, or you want to carefully tune some settings for one part with multiple iterations but don't want to waste filament with the rest of the model. What you will want to do is encase the parts you don't want to print in mesh modifiers, and then set perimeters, top & bottom layers, and infill for the modifiers to zero.
(I wonder if the reverse would work... Set the model perimeters, top & bottom layers, and infill for the model to zero, then set the modifier mesh perimeters, top & bottom layers, and infill to what you want for the print. I wonder if this would just print the part of the model within the modifier mesh... I'll have to experiment when I get home...)
Good idea!
I'd like a modifier setting to force its overlap in the layer to be the first thing executed, or enable the "print infill before perimeters" to be part of the modifier's Infill settings. I'm trying to create a zone inside my 0% infill print following a color change to allow the printhead to come back up to full pressure. Adding more perimeters makes the exterior perimeter on the first layer back bulge a bit and calculating some sort of compensation for that would be too costly. I don't have an MMU/purge towers...I'm doing it by hand on a single extruder. Any other ideas for this problem I'm all ears!
Has anyone encountered an issue with bridging with the gyroid infill pattern? When I print with the gyroid infill pattern, the gap isnt filled when the wave pattern transitions from the x direction to y direction. I was wondering if you can double the width of the gyroid pattern.
Id love to be able to use mesh modifiers and then export the model before slicing. Id love using these infill patterns as a texture and then print them in resin.
Hey Josef are you guys working on a users manual for PrusaSlicer? There seem to be a lot of great ‘hidden’ features like this in the software (just recently learned about the variable layer heights function too). Would be great to have everything documented somewhere. Thanks!
We are! Hoping to get something live soon and then we'll be adding content over time :)
I've been looking for this, sometimes I need certain areas to be denser.
There are plans to increase print size at i3 mk3?
Hey once I add something similiar to the plane it won't show upp... but my first box that makes the whole back a grid shows up in the GCODE. just no plane in the middle :(
It is possible to get the same result for the coaster without using modifier mesh. But for the phone case not.
I love the modifier mesh.
This is wicked thanks for the quick tutorial Josef.. With all the updates since this version. Will someone from your team be recreating all these tricks in the one concise place? I would like to follow along and watch.
We might actually wait for one more version, PrusaSlicer 2.4, which will introduce "negative volume" modifier, which simplifies this process a lot. With that said, the steps shown in the video still work and will work moving forward :) -Mikolas
@@Prusa3D Your teams doing a great job 👏 Keep up the good work. Mickolas. Look forward to 2.4 💪🚢
Will this work with ender 3 pro ?
Are these instructions still valid for the Slicer version 2.5.2? If not, is there "modern" documentation? Thrilled to explore this function!!
You can use this feature to also turn just about any object into a planter with a built in media filter!
Just use a modifier to first generate the space where the soil and plant will reside, then use a second modifier to remove top, bottom and side perimeters using a shape that passes through the bottom of the soil basin to the very bottom of the print. On the same modifier add infil changes such as higher/lower % or using cubic/gyroid/3d honeycomb to generate the 3d printed media filter!
Now, when your print comes off the bed it'll have a neat built in planter that has a controlled drain with a built in erosion prevention media!
Did I mention you can use this to make 3D printed media filters? :D
Hey that sounds actually pretty cool!
Make sure you tag us on social media if you try this :)
Man some internet nerd woke me up with this notifica~ Prusa 3D by Josef Prusa...oh...oh hi...uh...😳
You made a few references to Prusa SLicer V2.1. I cant find it on the Prusa site or Github. Any idea when it will be released? I really cant see myself upgrading S3D any more. I really love this slicer!
It is on GitHub, just not compiled yet, still working on undo-redo. But a beta version should come soon enough ;)
I can use this slicer in my Delta??
I need some help with Prusa slicer 2.2.0
I am trying to get the part to be exact size so I made square 20 x 20 mm and in the middle I made a hole 15 mm I found out that if I put on the XY compensation -.35 I get exactly 15 mm but the outside it’s smaller than 20 x 20 What should I do thanks I appreciate your help
Eli
My printer is anycubic i3 mega
a cool function would be to generate modifyer in a text form :)
Good idea, built-in personalizer of objects. You can sort of do it now, but you would have to generate the mesh shape externally and then load it as a modifier.
Do you have a plan to add a Coloring option to slic3r?
So question about colorchange/filament change. When mine starts printing second color it starts too close to the layer before the change and it looks rough.. any tips?
But how do I shift a mesh that I've already imported into a modifier mesh? In cura, I can just toggle any existing mesh and make them a modifier. Do I always have to import/reimport a mesh if I want to use it as a modifier in PS?
Good video. Will you ever add tree supports?
Tree supports are there already, but only for SLA for the time being. The first on the todo list is currently Undo and Redo, but we may re-write tree supports to work with FDM as well in the future ;)
@@TheMikolasZuza That would be great. For some prints tree supports are much better than standard supports. They would be an awesome addition to PrusaSlicer. Thanks for the reply.
@@JohnSmith-mk8hz just use meshmixer....
Changin the game again
Indeed
Why do I not see this option in PrusaSlicer 2.4.2 ? I am in expert mode and when I right-click my model the pop-up menu looks completely different (which is to be expected 3 years later) and there is no Edit Layer function that I can find.
Can you use this to select a completely different "Print Settings" profile at different layers or within modifiers? Or is it only limited to the couple of settings shown?
It's not the entire Print settings, but the list of settings you can change with modifiers is pretty long and we're adding more over time ;)
This is awesome 😮 but does it has tree supports like cura?
No, not YET...
They seem to generate perimeters at their boundaries even if hidden inside models, say to try to concentrate infill where stress is anticipated.
Hello, can prusa slicer be used for any machine? ie - Cr-10, ender 3 etc?
Yes, it's fork from the Slic3r project, it generates gcode that any machine can read (you have to select the flavor of it tho)
It's a direct fork of Slic3r, so it works on just about everything. It even has integration with Repetier. I use it on my CR-8 and Kossel (delta).
YES!
Hello! I noticed that Prusaslicer does not work well when Windows is in High Contrast mode. Where would be the best place to request better compatibility for this mode?
Best is to report an issue here: github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues ;)
Nice 'ease of use' feature coming to 2.1. How's the Undo/Redo stack coming? Surely this will be in 2.1 right? :~}
RJ_Make I look forward to that too. I know undo/redo is tough to add to a system which didn't have it from the start. I'm sure they will get it done. It will probably just take some tricky redesign to get done correctly without making the rest of the code a lot more complex. Fun stuff 😊
It will! Already working pretty well in our developer build :)
WAT.JPEG! This is the coolest damn thing.
Why does my model have 0 infill and 0 top or bottom layers in preview if I do exactly the same as you? I am trying to make it infill with no top or bottom layers but its not working. In cura all you do is remove top and bottom layer for it to make infill through whole model, but its not working for me. Update: I figured it out. I had only infill where needed ticked so when I unchecked it, it worked fine.
I'd like to suggest 2 features. 1: binary operations (intersect) with the primitives 2: to be able to place and extrude SVG files for easy logos.
Even complex design tools like Fusion360 have a hard time with placing svg logos and intersecting it with other bodies. I don't think we will see this anytime soon
New to my i3 Mk3 - I've ordered some HT-Nylon, Flex-TPU, and PCTG filament from Vision Miner - Are there Filament profiles out there for this? Can I build my own profile based on a similar preset ?
PrusaSlicer has built-in profiles for Nylon and Flex. Not from this brand, but you can most likely just sligthly modify the existing profiles. For PCTG you might want to start with a PETG profile.
Add these profiles by selecting Configuration - Configuration Wizard - Filaments in PrusaSlicer (top menu). -Mikolas
@@Prusa3D Sounds good, Ill start there. Can I "Save As" the resulting tweeks to a New name of my choosing? (If not; are these profiles stored as individual files that I can edit outside the app, to import?) e.g. Filament.Fil -> Open with Notepad
Maybe somebody can help me. I have been trying to create the same pattern like shown at: 4:16. Sadly I can't find "Layers and Perimeters" anywhere, so it only changes the Infill. Halp pls :)
You mentioned 2.1 several times. I do not see the alpha or beta for this in the github. When will it be available for us to to test?
What else can we expect to see in 2.1?
Soon, not yet ready for a beta, working on undo-redo ;)
pls give us print Settings in the slicer for 0.25 and 0.6 mm mmu2s nozzels :) because there is just the 0.4mm for mmu Feature
Update your slicer, run the setup wizard again. I have 0.25 and 0.6 for mmu
What a cool slicer, so many things it can do. I do wish It worked better with other printers, I have tried it with my ender 3 (custom and forum settings) Just keeps giving me worse prints then cura. I'm sure it does I am just a noob lol
Go through every setting in Cura.
Replicate them in your custom settings in PrusaSlicer.
is this software only usable if i have a prusa 3d printer?
No you can use it with almost any printer :) There quite a few community printer profiles, so check the 3D printing facebook groups for them.
Hey joseph how can i set multi layer quality in a single print?
Hmm, do you mean this: help.prusa3d.com/en/article/variable-layer-height-function_1750 ?
-Mikolas
Can one change MMU colors based on layers? That way one could make a model with dozens of different colors (5 per layer).
Yep, the limit is per layer, if you add regular color changes, you could have more than 5 colors per model.
Awesome
Super 👍👍🇵🇾😅
What printer do u use sir ?
that belgian dude are u serious bro? It’s a Prusa
@@nicolas-thefrancoversefran4110 Which model, smartass?
I'm going to go look this software up myself, so don't call me lazy for requesting a link. It just seems to me that a link to downloading the software would be a good idea to make it convienient and further promote it. :-) ...now to see if they have a native linux version :-)
That was easy. I started exploring by clicking on the Learn more: link :-) ...linux they have :-) ... I'd still put the word "download" with a link somewhere here but it's not my youtube channel :-)
anyone else want that wall of filament.. damn...
I love using modifiers, the only thing I really miss though, is being able to set a specific part to have a Brim. A bit of a bummer it's a global toggle only.
That's what I am thinking!!!
Why do you do this to me? Now I gotta learn PrusaSlicer all over again :(
i think this can be done in Cura as well, but this is waaaaaaay easier
In cura it's very easy as well.
why not just be able to select surfaces you want to modify rather than messing with moving and resizing modifer shapes
When I found what Prusa Slicer can do, I ditched Cura and simplyfy3D.
How are there dislikes?
Pěkné, ale vase mode to neumí. :D + když tam dám modifikátor kde budu chtít 2-3 perimetry klasicky a zapnu vase mode, tak to prostě nejde, a nejde to ani po smazání modifikátoru nebo modelu. :D
To ani jít nemůže. Vase mode nemá klasické vrstvy, tiskne se jedna kontinuální linka/spirála. Kdyby měly v některé části být 2-3 perimetry, tak už to nemůže být kontinuální.
Šlo by ale nastavit jen jeden perimetr a nulový infill, takový "vase mode lite" a pak by ten modifikátor měl normálně fungovat :)
@@Prusa3D proč by to nemělo jít? Prostě to pojede klasicky, pak v nějaké vrstvě se to přepne a bude to začínat jako když to začíná na plechu, pak v nějaké vrstvě to zase skončí a od té vrstvy to hodí zase klasicky.
PS: co ten smazaný ale stále aktivní modifikátor? 😀
No reason to ever use simplify 3d again :)
but one issue I have with the PrusaSlicer is that my mouse is SOOO fast. like when I rotate and pan in the scene for some reason it's suuuuper fast
UPDATE: I'm printing the coolest cutest case ever ^~^