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Shells, infill, roofs, and floors

Shells, infill, roofs, and floors - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Shells, infill, roofs, and floors

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- Let's explore how shells, infill, floor, and roof layers impact a 3D print. Let's start by going up to the project panel and adding a model. We'll choose optimize three, and click open. And we can close the project panel by clicking on the the folder. Then let's go to print settings and choose custom settings. Something to be aware of, if you see a little star here, next to the default print modes, you know that there's been some customization in the settings. And to reset that, you can just click on a different mode and toggle back, and then everything will be set back to the default. Okay, so this time around, I want to take a look at shells. We'll go to the bottom, and we're going to make sure we show the number of shells in our print settings. Then on infill, let's show the infill density and the infill pattern. On roofs, let's choose to show the roof thickness. And click done. Okay, so let's try switching up the infill pattern. Let's do the diamond fill and increase the…

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