<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Print density and the "feel" of items printed]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/5712/print-density-and-the-feel-of-items-printed/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:16:10 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Print density and the "feel" of items printed]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/51022/#p51022 You could also just increase the base layers too. The YSB print of the WW2 Nose Art is 10% infill. Very light. You will understand though that filling it in increases the cost and the print time. For me, the cost is still trivial, but I do not like to make the print time any longer than it is.

]]> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:16:10 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/51022/#p51022 <![CDATA[Print density and the "feel" of items printed]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/50973/#p50973 Being about a week into my Solidoodle 3 ownership now, and having fully calibrated everything, I'm finally working on "real" prints.  One thing that surprised me though is the "feel" of them.  I guess when I thought of a print, I thought it would feel more like if you hold a piece of ABS pipe in your hand.. solid.. sturdy.  When printing at .3mm and 40% infill, the prints I've done feel very.. light and "airy" for lack of a better term.  And yes, I realize that at least 60% of the object IS air.. heh

If I upped my infill to 60, 80 or even 100%, would things feel more like what I was expecting?

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