Given that there's SKIRT, I suspect there may be BRIM and RAFT - I can obviously do a quick test for that but, to date, I've never needed to use either. SKIN makes sense as I can see that a 100% FILL could look exactly the same as SKIN but would be completely hidden. After I posted the question, it occurred to me that a 'travel' would simply be a move without extruding anything; thanks to @bagel-orb for confirmation.
FYI, my interest was due to an article about postprocessing the GCode to speed up sections which aren't going to be seen; e.g. it doesn't matter if any inner wall suffers from ringing as long as the outer wall is clean. The article used GCode from Simplify3D and I wondered if the same thing was possible with CURA. I've also wondered if 'travels' could be improved as I've seen several of my models where the hot end is moved in a zigzag following a nearby model wall, for example a horizontal screw thread, when the printer could obviously move faster if it just moved further out a did a single move to the destination!
Thanks for both replies.
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@StarNamer - does that answer your question? I can explain the others if you want. I guess SKIN is least obvious - if you have a 1mm top/bottom thickness then sometimes it is printing "skin" which can be the topmost layer or it can be the layer just below but not including the other types like WALL.
If you look at an individual layer - cura thinks of everything as islands. You have to think in 2D which is tricky - you have to forget it's a 3d part - and you see these islands encircled by WALL and with INFILL or SKIN inside them.
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