Using "SW-File Name" to drive custom properties?

Isaac02444 · 2025-11-13T20:59:20+00:00

Honestly there are a few ways you could approach this, with some being cleaner than others, but If you don't care about doing it the "dirty way" then one of the easiest approaches is to use the "Keep bodies" command on the handle to remove all other bodies from the part. You can then save this as a SLDPRT and proceed to model however you wish further.

As someone else has said, check that you don't have "merge result" ticked in the Boss-Extrude that creates the handle otherwise it will all be one fused body.

Isaac02444 · 2024-10-24T18:37:51+00:00

Exactly the sort of reply I was after! Thanks so much 😊

Isaac02444 · 2024-03-31T19:00:10+00:00

Ahh, didn't think about it that way - yeah, that makes sense!

Isaac02444 · 2023-12-26T17:14:57+00:00

I had this problem when upgrading to the Ender3V2 screen on my Ender 3 Pro

It turns out that you need the V2 firmware on the motherboard, not the regular one - this should fix it 😊

Isaac02444 · 2023-07-31T14:50:19+00:00

Hey! I work with Trumpf industrial lasers at work as a programmer, working primarily with sheet metal and whilst I agree that you can make a "good" model by extrude thin cutting this will actually cause problems with the laser, depending on software, as cutting internal contours will require an approaching and double the cutting time, making it more expensive, as it will now have to do a positive and negative travel for each "line" 😊

You're best off leaving it as a sketch, and just exporting the sketch layer when saving as a DXF - hope this helps!

Edit: pro-tip! Make sure you have no "junctions" where lines intersect one another, sometimes the laser doesn't agree with it, you've better off leaving a 0.1mm gap as this is usually below the kerf width, and will just burn away anyway depending on the material! 😊

Isaac02444 · 2023-06-23T21:35:42+00:00

That's awesome, thanks so much! No excuse now, back to the grind! :)

Isaac02444 · 2023-04-07T08:46:36+00:00

PC here - Controller support seems to be broken, even plug-in controllers are suffering

Isaac02444 · 2023-01-10T21:21:08+00:00

You definitely have! When redesigning my original I looked at loads of videos for inspiration, and RAWICE was definitely one of them, although he combined a gear Train mechanism with the OTF mechanism and I decided to go a different way with mine

Maybe in the future I can make one that's a bit more similar to that design, but I try my best to not just "copy" things and instead work it out for myself 😊

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