Can someone please tell me what I am missing here? This flared cylinder is a part from my 3D print and I cannot seem to create any infill. A semi-sphere is seated on top of the cylinder and I want the cylinder fill to provide better attachment for the semi-sphere while reducing the possibility of a fracture point where the two attach. The semi-sphere, for whatever reason fills just nicely. I am including the file in case someone has the proclivity to explore this futher, as I am at a loss. Thank you so much!
I’m afraid there’s no magic here. The Cylinder you imported is designed as a tube. What you see is what you get. If you want to make the tube a solid, you have to bring it into CAD and make it a solid.
Oh, there’s a little magic, IMHO. I created a “solid” cylinder in a CAD program by creating a physical plug from a short cylinder and saved it as an .STL. When I bring it into Bambu Studio and slice it, I find there is no infill in this cylinder. Please tell me what I am doing wrong here.
The evidence that your model is a tube is shown in your image. Without access to the model, I can only go by what’s onscreen but it clearly shows more than one feature.
What you might try doing is exporting the model as a STEP file if you haven’t tried that and/or taking the model and importing/exporting it in one of the many online file conversion utilities. You could also bring it into OnShape as I did, Fusion360 or FreeCAD and redraft the model to ensure that it’s a solid.
Try out this site for file conversion. There are many others online but this is the “least suckiest” I found when it comes to conversion between different 3D formats. Feel free to experiment with other online sites, Google them. Try as an example switching between OBJ, IGES, STEP etc. You’ll want to educate yourself on the difference between vector(STEP and IGES) and mesh(STL, OBJ etc) formats to understand what’s going on under the hood at these sites and in CAD Save-AS.
By switching back and forth between STL and STEP, you can trick the utility into “wrapping” a container around the whole assembly and leveraging a bug in their utility to “mistake” the tube for a solid. I’ve done it but not intentionally and it was annoying when it happened. I’m sure now that I’d want to do it deliberately
