From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Troubleshoot 3D Prints
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Ordering operations within a layer
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Troubleshoot 3D Prints
Ordering operations within a layer
- [Instructor 1] The processes inside one layer of a film in 3D print can be ordered differently, based on a few parameters in 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 closed loops often called perimeters. You may also see them referred to as walls, shells, or outlines. You can choose to print the perimeters from inside to outside or outside to inside. In Cura, this is set using the setting in the show grouping outer before inner walls. - [Instructor 2] Why 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 0.1 line next to another, the second one that you print will have to squeeze into whatever space the first one didn't use. Thus…
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