price an stl print on slant3d
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I've been playing with 3d printing some items through the slant3d api. I've been pricing out different prints by running a slice request through their api.

Date: November 18, 2024

I’ve been playing with 3d printing some items through the slant3d api. I’ve been pricing out different prints by running a slice request through their api.

make a project
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I’ve been using uv for project management. It’s been working well for quick projects like this while making it reproducible, I’m still all in on hatch for libraries.

[code]
  mkdir slantproject
  cd slantproject
  uv init
  uv venv
  . ./.venv/bin/activate
  uv add httpx rich python-dotenv

Get an api key
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You will need an api key from the slant api, which currently requires a google account and a credit card to create.

[code]
  # .env
  #  replace with your api key from https://api-fe-two.vercel.app/
  SLANT_API_KEY=sl-**

slicing an stl with teh slant api
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Then you can run the python script to price out your print. I’m not exactly sure how this compares to an order, especially when you add in different materials.

[code]
  from dotenv import load_dotenv
  import httpx
  import os
  
  load_dotenv()
  
  stl_url = ''
  api_key = os.environ["SLANT_API_KEY"]
  
  api = httpx.Client(base_url="https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer")
  
  res = httpx.post(
      "https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer",
      json={"fileURL": stl_url},
      headers={"api-key": api_key, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
      timeout=60,
  )
  
  
  print(res.json())