Automated variable layer slicing

Of course this is a rather crude brute force way of doing this, but it is workable. Would love to see a more refined feature like this implemented in SLic3r, Cura or Simplify3D.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Variable-Slicing-for-3D-Printing-on-Autodesk-Ember/?ALLSTEPS

 

Watching the video you can see the basic principles of how they accomplish this. If you wanted to try this in Slic3r you could do it by using the adjust at Z height function, in Cura there is a script that allows adjustments at a Z height, In S3D you could use multiple processes that trigger at certain layers. In any case it will be a tedious and very manual process.

 

Agreed. We have in fact done that on a couple of occasions. It is tough to configure correctly and requires a lot of thought