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

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.