How to cut slots on a hollow cone

It might be a good time to adopt the habit of purging your model to reduce it’s size.

Window>Model>Statistics Purge Unused.

Your model went from 1.4 mb to 168kb on my machine.

Shep

Yes it’s supposed to be a bit under 3" at its base

What does purging do?

It removed extra information from your model, making it a smaller file, without unneeded or redundant data.