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Infill strategies

Infill strategies

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Infill strategies

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- [Instructor] When you create a 3D print, you often work pretty hard to avoid needing support structures. Since 3D prints are rarely solid, they usually require support on this inside as well. This is called infill, and your infill settings can affect the print time, material usage, print strength, and even the surface quality of your print. Slicers, like Ultimaker Cura shown here, allow you to choose many different infill patterns. Patterns like grid are the same each layer, producing solid columns from the bottom of the print to the top. Some other options, like the lines pattern, alternate their orientation each layer, bridging over gaps in the previous layer. Newer 3D infill patterns change each layer, which creates sloped surfaces and overhangs. In Cura, there are many settings for infill. Most people will leave the majority of them alone. However, you will want to think about the percentage of infill for some…

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