From the course: Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM
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Shells, infill, top, and bottom layers - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM
Shells, infill, top, and bottom layers
- [Instructor] Now let's optimize with shells, infill and top and bottom layers. Go to the file folder and open Optimize number three and choose Open. Zoom in here for a closer look. So on Shell, let's click the gear to bring up the custom settings. Let's add Wall Line Count and Top Layers, Top/Bottom Pattern and Infill Pattern to our custom settings. Then I'll choose Close. You can see that we have those new settings available now. We're going to talk about wall thickness again, but this time it's referring to the thickness of the shell, that repeated outline on the outside before it turns to infill. So in Cura, we have a couple different ways to take a look at wall thickness. Let's pull our visualization down to the middle, so we have a nice view of the middle of our print. We can change the wall thickness by changing the dimension to two millimeters, or by changing the wall line count, which is the number of thread width passes around the outside. We can change that to four. If I…
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