slicer

Fast 3D mesh slicer written in Go. Writes slices to grayscale PNG files.

Install Go

First, install Go, set your GOPATH, and make sure $GOPATH/bin is on your PATH.

brew install go
export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"

Install Slicer

$ go get -u github.com/fogleman/slicer/cmd/slicer

Example Usage

$ slicer --help

# slice model.stl with slices that are 0.1 units thick, rendering PNGs that
# cover 100x100 units in size with resolution of 10 pixels per unit
$ slicer -s 0.1 -w 100 -h 100 -x 10 model.stl 

Example Slice