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

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Ordering operations within a layer

Ordering operations within a layer

- [Instructor] The processes inside one layer of a film in three D print can be ordered differently based on a few parameters and you're slicing software, which one you select can have a surprisingly large impact. Slicers usually have a few options for controlling the order of operations within a layer. The outer shell of your print is made up of one or more close loops called perimeters. You may also see them referred to as walls, shells or outlines. You can choose to print the parameters from inside to outside or outside to inside. In Cura, this is set using the setting in the shell grouping outer before inner walls. - [Instructor] What does the perimeter order matter, in order to ensure that adjacent lines are bonded to one another, your slicer often makes them overlap slightly. When you print one line next to another, the second one that you print will have to squeeze into whatever space the first one didn't use.…

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