From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Perimeters and infill
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
Perimeters and infill
- [Instructor] When you create something with a 3D printer, you have some control over how smooth the surface is and how strong the print will be. 3D prints have an outer shell called a perimeter, wall, or shell. Inside, this is a lattice work that supports the print internally called the infill. In this video, we'll introduce the perimeters and infill parameters and what happens if you vary one or the other. Now let's drag a cube 20 millimeters on a side with a hole in it into Cura and go to preview mode. Cura lets us simulate a 3D print in preview. Here, you can use the sliders to move from layer to layer, or you can animate one layer at a time. Let's start the first layer and show how it builds up. As we go up from the first layer, we can see that there's a solid wall around the outside of the print called the perimeter or sometimes, the wall of the print. The structure inside the print is infill. Printers that use…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.