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The walls of the model are too thin. It is like you are trying to draw fine lines with a fat sharpy. Best thing to do is to make the model thicker. You can also try the following:
* Enable the "Print Thin Walls" setting. This will let the printer use thinner lines to print very thin parts, although they might become wider than the model intends them to be.
* Reduce the "Line Width". If you're printing something that has thin walls or webbings, make sure that the line width is slightly smaller than the minimum width of that part. However reducing the line width too much may cause underextrusion due to insufficient flow. To be able to reduce the line width further, you'll need to use a smaller nozzle.
* Add some Horizontal Expansion to the print. This makes the entire model wider on all sides, including the thin parts. They become less thin that way, so that they may now be printed. This does of course also ruin any dimensional accuracy and detail of the print since everything becomes thicker.
Worked a treat. TY so very much. Clearly I learn a bunch every time I slice but your knowledge makes the learning curve more palpable. Again, many thanks!
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The walls of the model are too thin. It is like you are trying to draw fine lines with a fat sharpy. Best thing to do is to make the model thicker. You can also try the following:
* Enable the "Print Thin Walls" setting. This will let the printer use thinner lines to print very thin parts, although they might become wider than the model intends them to be.
* Reduce the "Line Width". If you're printing something that has thin walls or webbings, make sure that the line width is slightly smaller than the minimum width of that part. However reducing the line width too much may cause underextrusion due to insufficient flow. To be able to reduce the line width further, you'll need to use a smaller nozzle.
* Add some Horizontal Expansion to the print. This makes the entire model wider on all sides, including the thin parts. They become less thin that way, so that they may now be printed. This does of course also ruin any dimensional accuracy and detail of the print since everything becomes thicker.
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