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Windows · Free · v2.0.3
Scale & Cut Studio takes a Bambu Studio project, scales it up, cuts the oversized objects into plate-sized pieces with alignment connectors and color-matched seams, orients and packs them onto plates, and writes a new .3mf that’s ready to slice.
Click any shot to enlarge it. These are from a real job: a four-color robot octopus scaled to 557 mm, which came out as 28 pieces on 15 plates with 19 glue joints.
Scaling a model up past your build volume is the easy part — what takes the evening is cutting it sensibly, keeping print-in-place joints intact, adding pins that actually line up, hiding the glue seams, and then re-plating two dozen pieces by hand. Scale & Cut Studio does that pass for you and hands back a project you can slice.
Each step has its own panel, with the values you rarely touch folded away. Undo and redo cover the lot, and a job file saves every setting and every cut for later.
By percentage of the current size, percentage of the original model, or a target length for the longest side in millimeters. Quick buttons jump 100–400 %, and a single object can take a different scale from the rest.
Auto-plan sizes every piece to the plate, steps around print-in-place joints, avoids thin slivers, and puts the seams on edges and color changes where it can find them.
Cuts across X, Y or Z, slid to the millimeter and tilted in two directions. Limit one to a single side of an earlier cut, or let a piece stand on its cut face. Tags call out clean cuts, moving joints, thin parts and slivers as you go.
Five ways to line the pieces up: pins printed loose with the job, plugs printed onto one piece, holes for store-bought steel dowels, pockets for disc magnets, or plain flat faces. Set the fit clearance and print fit-test coupons before you commit to the whole job.
Print pieces as designed, largest cut face down, or whichever way needs the fewest supports. Supports, brim, infill and walls for everything or per object, with the printer and its build volume read out of the project.
Preview the plates before anything is written, then build a new .3mf alongside an assembly guide in HTML and plain text. Export one STL per piece, have Bambu Studio slice every plate and report time, filament and cost, or open the result straight in the slicer.
The six steps live on a rail down the left of the window. The 3D view in the middle switches between the model and its cut planes, the pieces as they print, one plate, all plates, and the finished assembly.
Open the project or drop it on the window. Check the objects to include — each one shows its size and whether it fits or needs cutting.
Pick a percentage or a target size in millimeters, for everything at once or object by object.
Let the planner place them, or add your own across X, Y and Z and tilt them. Tags warn about moving joints, thin walls and slivers.
Choose the connectors and their fit, and paint the cut faces to match the surface they meet so the glue line disappears.
Orientation, supports, brim, infill, walls, plate gap and prime-tower room — or just keep what the project already had.
Preview, then write the .3mf and its assembly guide. Optionally export STLs, slice-check every plate, and open it in Bambu Studio.
One zip, two files inside: the app and its manual. Unzip it anywhere and double-click.
The app isn’t code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen will warn you about an unknown publisher the first time. Click More info → Run anyway, or check the SHA-256 above against your download first.
Prefer to read the manual before downloading 67 MB? Open the README.
Not supported yet: dovetail and snap-fit joints, zig-zag cut profiles, and hollowing — the slicer’s infill already keeps big pieces light.
Found a bug or want a feature? Mail daniel@aklipi.com.
Scale & Cut Studio is an independent tool by Daniel Aklipi. It reads and writes Bambu Studio project files but is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Bambu Lab.
Cut it into pieces that fit, add alignment connectors, print the pieces and glue them together. Scale & Cut Studio does the cutting for you: open a Bambu Studio .3mf, choose the new size, and it places the cuts, adds pins, orients the pieces, packs them onto plates and writes a new project that is ready to slice.
Yes. It is free to download and use, with no account and no installer.
It opens and writes Bambu Studio .3mf projects and reads the printer and build volume from the project. It can also export one STL per piece, without color, which any slicer can load.
Only for Slice check and Open in Bambu Studio. Scaling, cutting, connectors, plating and building the new .3mf all work without it.
Loose printed pins, plugs printed onto one piece, holes for steel dowel pins, pockets for disc magnets, or plain flat faces. You set the fit clearance and can print small fit-test coupons first. 0.2 mm per side is a slip fit on a Bambu printer.
Not yet. It needs 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.
The app is not code-signed, so Windows shows an unknown-publisher warning the first time. Click More info, then Run anyway, or first compare the file’s SHA-256 with the one published above.
No. Your files are never overwritten; the app always writes a new .3mf alongside an assembly guide.
