3D printing
Pick a printer, check the fit and the print, choose which side faces up, and hand the part to your slicer.
Pick a printer
The 3D Printing workspace starts with a printer. The built-in catalogue covers about forty printers across ten brands; pick yours, or add your own with its build volume, and it is saved under My printers for next time. The build plate and build volume are drawn around the part so you can see at a glance whether it fits.
- The fit check reports the part's size against the build volume per axis.
- A printer you add once is remembered in your account.
Check the print
Print check looks at the part the way a slicer will: watertightness, volume, a rough weight for the chosen material, overhangs steeper than 45°, and contact with the plate. Overhangs are shaded on the model so you can see where support would go.
Choose which side faces up without changing the model — the part flips on the plate, the shading updates, and the check runs again. Most overhang warnings disappear with the right orientation.
Tip: A part that is watertight in the check will slice cleanly. If it is not, the Surfacing tools in Model (Patch, Knit) usually close the gap.
Hand it to your slicer
Open the part in Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer, Cura, Creality Print, ElegooSlicer, Anycubic Slicer Next, QIDI Studio or PreForm straight from the browser, or download a print-ready 3MF, STL or STEP. The 3MF keeps every body as its own named part, so a multi-body design arrives in the slicer as separate objects with their names intact.
- 3MF — every body named, with mesh quality you choose.
- STL — a single mesh for any slicer.
- STEP — the exact solid, for slicers and other CAD that read it.
Ready to try it yourself?
Everything in this guide works in your browser, with no install. HelioCad Pro includes every feature.