Topic: .1 mm or .3 mm which is best for strength & accuracy
which is best for printing stuff like the MK5
the .1 mm or the .3 mm layer thickness.
does layer thickness make a difference in strength & accuracy
Ultimaker S3.
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2 2013-07-02 11:46:29 (edited by adrian 2013-07-02 11:48:17)
Re: .1 mm or .3 mm which is best for strength & accuracy
accuracy - depends on the model. If you have fine detail that is <.3mm in the vertical, then you will loose detail printing at .3mm. If you are talking a flat sided cube with no texture detail - then they will be exactly the same.
What can happen though, is if a model is optimised for .1mm and you print it at .3mm, it can be 'off' because the perimeters/wall width don't divide cleanly into the model.. So what the model is built for can make all the difference too (which is why many people provide wall thickness and layer height as options in customizer/openscad models....)
strength wise, I personally have found it once again tends to be model specific. A thin walled .1mm print can be less prone to delamination that the same model printed at .3mm is, because the layers are more tightly fused... but then when talking about say a 'solid' cube... the .1mm model has roughly 3 times as many points on the vertical that it can have poor adhesion with, so thus, can often be actually stronger overall but more prone to spontaneous layer failure depending on filament and print quality....
But the above is purely my own empirical observations and not based on any actual research or examination of the subject.