51 Reply by jagowilson

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Re: 1mm vertical surfaces too thick.

I think it's a bug, see my post above.

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Re: 1mm vertical surfaces too thick.

The ultimate answer is to design in multiples of .48
I have been doing design that way for years now.  Yes, once you get over a few mm in thickness it will be less important.  But on the small stuff it can really help.

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Re: 1mm vertical surfaces too thick.

So, just to see how it would come out, I grabbed the latest version of Cura and tried to use it for the 1mm-sided rectangle test. I left the layer thickness at .2, flow % at 90, infill at 50% and the perimeter width I set to .4 (it requires it to be a multiple of the nozzle size, so I figure this would be the best way to tell it to do one perimeter).

For starters, it really tried hard to do infill, doing a back and forth pattern across the 1mm walls. This resulted in a horrible looking print with gobs of plastic all over the sides. It was not nice and smooth like what I get with slic3r. Much to my amazement though, the walls are *much* closer to 1mm! I get measurements from .97-1.12 but it's hard to find good spots because of the horrible gobs of plastic all over it.  Where I can find good spots, they are all right at 1.00mm

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Re: 1mm vertical surfaces too thick.

wardjr wrote:

The ultimate answer is to design in multiples of .48
I have been doing design that way for years now.  Yes, once you get over a few mm in thickness it will be less important.  But on the small stuff it can really help.

Unfortunately, even with the multiple of .48, it tries to do infill unless I tell it to do 0 infill. But that would mess up the other parts of the model that actually needs infill.

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Re: 1mm vertical surfaces too thick.

Yeah, I'm guessing it may be easier to roll back a few versions of Slic3r.  Try 1.0.0RC3. That is still my favorite version.  It simply does what you'd expect.  If you do that note that infill is stated as a number between 0-1 instead of a percentage.

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