Trying to cut a model before printing

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I’m trying to do something that feels like it should be simple, but I’m struggling to find a way. I have an stl file that has spots for two items and I wanted to reconfigure it to only have one spot. I just want to cut and merge but this seems impossible. Any suggestion on tool and how to do this?

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If you just want a straight cut I’d think your slicer would be able to do that. Prusaslicer can, at least.

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After doing it in TinkerCad, it does look like the slicer could probably have done it too. Thanks!

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Tinkercad. Paste it in twice. Edit away half of each, stick together.

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That is s fun little tool. Worked great, thanks!

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MeshMixer is the program I use for a lot of mesh editing. It has a nice set of features, but feature development was ended in 2021, so there may be more modern options available.

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Try blender. YouTube tutorial.

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I’ve tried Blender and continue to try to learn but it has an insane learning curve. Imo, it’s only useful for artistic work.

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What software are you using? Do you have any experience using any CAD-program?

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