Cut a relief into horizontal slices, allowing material to be stacked to create larger objects. If a final design height is 4 inches, the design relief can be cut into 3 horizontal slices so it can be cut from 1.5 inch material and assembled into the final design.
Most slices will have large flat areas that correspond to the top of the material and do not need to be machined. The Extract Slices tool can generate masking contours to exclude the flat top when generating toolpaths.
Extract Slice Parameters
| Slice Thickness | Thickness of each slice, typically the thickness of material |
| Slice Count | Number of slices to create |
| Slice Bottom | Location of the bottom of the first slice. Most commonly the bottom of a relief, but it can be increased slightly to remove a flat relief background |
| Produce Mask | Generate masking contours for toolpath creation |
| Mask Offset | Offset masking contours from the slice edge. Provides room for the toolpaths to over cut the slice |
| Separate Layers | Separates slices into separate drawing layers when enabled |
| Apply | Creates slices with selected parameters |
| Close | Closes tool without slicing |