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Re:Show HN: 100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing by bayesian_horse on Sunday November 11, 2018 @11:27PM (#18430581)
Nope. All slicers work by intersecting a plane with a 3D volume. In this case a CSG tree. At the bare minimum you need a way to tell if an x,y,z point is inside the volume or outside. In the case of a rotated cube shape, the x,y,z vector is just rotated/transformed the other way (inversely) than the cube, and the test still works. Most slicers will have more sophisticated methods of intersecting a plane with a volume...

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