New to Fusion360 & Slicer - Attempting to break apart / explode an .stl

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm very new to Fusion 360 and Slicer.  I've found many a tutorial that are very helpful but none that seems to specifically answer what I'm trying to achieve.

I have a stl file that I'm trying to break apart or explode so that I may use a laser cutter to create it from ply instead of 3d printing.  I can see how Slicer works with meshes in a simple use case but when I try and replicate with this file, or similar ones, it doesn't yield the correct result and I assume that's more down to it being my lack of understanding.  Slicer may not be needed at all but I cannot find where, or how in Fusion that I may achieve this.

The dream ending would be for the walls to be broken away and also for the notches/files to be generated as they are when using slicer.

Any helps would be hugely appreciated, thank you.

[LibertyMachine]

Could you provide us with a better understanding of WHAT you are actually looking for? Your short explanation at the end of your thread leaves a little bit of guessing

[Anonymous]

My apologies.

The file is an stl of a box organiser. For me to laser cut this design instead of 3dprint it I need to be able to ‘pull’ out or separate all of the walls from the main piece so that I may cut them.

*sigh* I’m sorry, that still doesn’t read very well.

When you use Slicer on a gerneric 3dobject it will show you the pieces that will need to be cut in order to replicate the mode using 3mm ply for example. Even though this file that I’m working on is an stl I don’t need all of those slices, I literally need the side and inner walls as separate pieces but I’m unable to make this happen. Does that make any more sense at all?

[LibertyMachine]

That makes a lot more sense. You are basically looking to knock down the sides and have it all lay flat, right?

[Anonymous]

That’s pretty much exactly it 🙂 If I can get notches in as well that’s a huge bonus

[etfrench]

Here's one way to do it:

1. You'll need to add the tabs manually by:
2. Create a sketch on the face of the piece with the male tab.
3. Draw the tab.
4. Close the sketch.
5. Extrude the tab using the Extrude|Join command.
6. Use the Extrude|Cut command to create the female side.