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🔪 Cutting into pieces 🏌️ A curved shot 🖨️ Making print layers
slicing

slicing

5.5
Turning a 3D model into thin layers and instructions for a 3D printer
  • noun
  • Specialized
: corte
  • You know, so, so I think you get into that and then you also get into like the nice thing with the their slicing software Cura that it comes with.

You know, so, so I think you get into that and then you also get into like the nice thing with the their slicing software Cura that it comes with.

Examples

  • (SLICING)

    Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)

  • Slicing is an expensive and material-wasteful process.

    Academic text (1993)

  • And generically you would either have no slicing or slicing depending on where the variables put you in this in this phase diagram.

  • Several approaches have been investigated to minimize the cost of the original silicon material and to eliminate the slicing step.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The results in resin and slicing very thinly before firing a high energy beam through it.

  • (SLICING)

    Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)

  • Slicing a 3D model is essential for ensuring accurate layer construction by the slicing printer.

  • The process of slicing converts the digital design into thin layers that the printer can understand.

  • In additive manufacturing, slicing translates the 3D digital model into printer instructions like G-code.

Surface Forms

slicing singular
slicings plural

Morphology

slicing = slice (transparent) = slice + ing

The 3D-printing sense literally refers to cutting the model into thin layers, a direct extension of the base verb 'slice'.

Etymology

Slicing in 3D printing borrows the word slice, meaning 'thin piece' or 'layer', like a slice of cake. In this use, slicing is the process of turning a 3D model into many thin layers so the printer can build them.