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Modifier meshes

Modifier meshes

From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Modifier meshes

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- [Instructor] A modifier mesh is a secondary model that you can overlap with your primary model to change the settings where the models overlap. You might want to do this to add extra walls, or have higher infill depths in a certain area to make the print stronger there. Alternatively, you might use a modifier mesh to reduce infill or shell thickness in areas that don't need it in order to save material and reduce print time. Another common use is to completely remove part of the print shell, leaving the infill exposed. Depending on the infill pattern selected, this can produce a mesh or grid pattern. These meshes are stronger, faster printing, more efficient, and leave more open space as possible when designing these patterns into the model. You may even want to select an infill pattern and leave it visible for a unique aesthetic effect. In Ultimaker Cura, you can use a second STL file as a modifier mesh. To do this…

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