From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
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Printing hollow and solid
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
Printing hollow and solid
- [Female Narrator] Most of the time you can get away with one or two parameters and infill of 20% plus or minus. But there are two special cases that come up a lot, printing a hollow or solid print. In these cases the standard selections won't cut it. Look at each of these and why you might want to do this. What happens with zero infill? This is a hollow print. Your print will need to bridge across the open space at the top. That works for this cube, but might be more difficult for a larger one. And it might not work at all for some other geometries. If you want to print something hollow without a top, that's called a vase print. There are two ways to do a vase print. One is to use the Spiralize Outer Contour, Special Printing Mode. The Smooth Contour setting that appears if you select Spiralize Outer Contour, is intended to prevent the appearance of a seam along one side. In some cases though it can actually make…
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