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.

```
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.

```
# .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.

```
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())
```