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Interlocking parts and horizontal size compensation

Interlocking parts and horizontal size compensation

From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Troubleshoot 3D Prints

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Interlocking parts and horizontal size compensation

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- [Narrator] When you design a 3D print, you have to remember that your print lives in the real world, nothing will ever print absolutely perfectly. And you have to build intolerances to allow for that. On the other hand, sometimes this lets you make an approximation that makes a print easier to create. Over-extrusion can cause you to have a print that's a bit too big its outer dimensions and a bit under in its internal ones like holes. This part should be 10 millimeters internal and external. But as you can see, it's too big on the external and too small on the internal. If you over-extrude, your line of plastic may be fatter than your model allowed for. If the fit between pieces is too tight, consider backing off any extrusion multiplier you're using and setting it back to a hundred percent to see if that fixes the problem in Cura three, the parameters in the material section called flow and reducing it may solve the…

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