Click Export Cli from the Additive Prep ribbon to export a CLI file of the part/supports to a file location of your choice. Common Layer Interface (CLI) is a universal, neutral file format for input of geometry information for layered technologies such as additive manufacturing. Additive Prep uses the ASCII data format.
CLI files from Additive Prep include:
Outline of the part (partname.cli)
Hatch vectors of volumeless supports (partname_s.cli)
CLI files from Additive Prep do not include:
Hatch vectors of the part
Contour vectors (border, etc.) of the part
Hatch vectors of solid supports
Contour vectors (border, etc.) of solid supports
Known Issues
Incompatibility with EOSPrint — CLI files exported from Additive Prep may include negative X-Y coordinates for parts/supports. This is most likely to be the case when you are using an SLM machine, since the Zero Point is located at the center of the baseplate (default for all SLM machines). EOSPrint, the process management software for EOS systems, cannot process entities with negative coordinates on the plate and so parts/supports may get cut off upon importing the CLI file into EOSPrint. If you know you will be using an EOS machine, position the part and supports to have only positive coordinates, or select an EOS machine, which has the Zero Point at the corner.
SpaceClaim hangs when exporting CLI on Chinese localized system — Using Chinese localization, whenever a part, with or without supports, is exported as a CLI file, the 3D object is added to the export folder but SpaceClaim stops responding before the CLI file is created.