Settings help

[mark-hale 1]

Hi

Have found an object on the thingiverse which suggests 0 infill 1 perimeter.

Where do I find these settings in cura

 

[matengi 0]

Here as I know:

Infill: Basic/Fill/Fill density

Perimeter: Basic/Quality/Shell thickness

 

[mark-hale 1]

Many thanks

 

[illuminarti 18]

Perimeters are the concentric loops around the outside of each layer of the print. These are basically the bits you see most of - the outside surface of the sides of the print. Some slicers allow you to specify the number of rings of plastic that you want - the instructions were asking you to set a single ring.

Cura measures that in terms of a distance, rather than a number of rings of plastic, and refers to it as the 'shell'. So to get a 'single perimeter' you need to specify a shell thickness equal to your nozzle size - usually 0.4mm on an Ultimaker. In general, you should always set the shell thickness to be an exact multiple of your nozzle size, so that Cura can easily and exactly use a whole number of adjacent passes to make the shell layer.

 

[illuminarti 18]

Rereading it, I see that 'shell layer' might not have been the best wording to use at the end there. I meant the 'shell part of each layer'.