Slicer for Fusion 360 topics

[gmelantoni]

Update Aug 17, 2020:

Here is the last stable release of Slicer: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/downloads/caas/downloads/content/slicer-for-fusion...

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Moving support for Slicer for Fusion 360 into the forums. The app will be in maintenance for the time being. Since we believe it still provides a lot of value, we want to keep it available until we find the opportunity to either update it or move its core functions into Fusion 360 itself.

These are the current know issues:

•  On some Windows 10 machines, Slicer crashes. Try updating your graphic card drivers. If you have onboard graphics, they may just not be powerful enough for supporting Slicer's graphic system.
• After deprecation of TLS1.0, Slicer can't sign in. You can still do all the work offline and save locally.
• You can't find Win or Mac version. There's a button on the store that leads to the other version you are looking for, The active state is not very clear.
• Slicer fails to show any slices. The material may be too thin or there are too many slices. Slicer was initially thought for plywood, acrylic and cardboard in low to medium complexity models.
• Panelization's numbers are wrong. This is a bug, unfortunately. In models of low or medium complexity, you can use the 3d model on screen to guide the right connections.

[cmcampbellNDCUJ]

Thanks again. I've figured out a work around:

• Use "Add Tube" in MM to create dowel holes for ease of assembly.
• Plane cut mesh at 150mm intervals.
• Separate shells.
• Export obj. files for each shell.
• Import into Slicer for Fusion 360
• Enter material size etc. as usual and export dxf files for cutting.

This way Slicer does the grunt work of cutting and labeling the profiles, and if I keep meshes to 150mm or under in height it seems stable and works as advertised. I may have to go down the MM rabbit hole at some point if it starts to fail again or gets more buggy. 

[schack.lindemann]

So now that Slicer is going the way of the Dodo and AutoDesk is going to stop supporting it, I have a question you will probably answer with a "No" but I'll try anyway. 

Slicer is a very unique tool that doesn't have any real competition anywhere in the software world. Since it works with simple STL files and outputs equally simple DXF/PDF its extremely interoperable and is as such not specifically intertwined with any other Autodesk product. It's still to this day a very useful and amazingly versatile tool for the entire artist and maker communities, and many many people is still counting on its capabilities to solve these unique problems. Hundreds and maybe even thousands of tutorials found around the net rely on the use of slicer and they would all be obsolete if you just abandon your own creation.

So, please please pretty please, Autodesk, would you consider donating the code for this amazing tool to the open source community and thereby ensuring it a form of eternal life in the endless hallows of Github??

It would be nothing short of epic!

with high regards and undying respect

/Schack Lindemann

/Technology Guru@FabLabRUC - Roskilde University - Denmark 

[Anonymous]

I second this. I'm dead in the water without this workflow. It's seriously panic attack inducing.

[MartiBoti]

Thank you for refering to LuBan, I was desesperate looking for a replacement soft.

I just took a look to Luban page and it seems to be now a serious solution, have you tried it since your last post? If yes, what do you think about ?

[MartiBoti]

What about exporting the sheets in PDF, importing them into Inkscape to convert them in .svg and then generate the Gcode with jscut ?

Whatever, I need now to try LuBan.

[rightidtw]

Excuse me, if I want to open the stl and obj files, Mesh could not be imported will appear
then exit the program

If you want to log in, you are still stuck in the white dialog box for logging in.

[info.sculptedart]

I am trying to use Slicer as usual but this week when I open it up it will immediately crash any time I try to import an OBJ to work on.  I have tried uploading the same OBJs Ive used in projects consistently since last year but every time it will sit, get to the loading bar, then the program will crash without any error message. 

Is this being looked into?  Is Slicer being officially canned and folks need to find another tool to use?  

Thanks