I keep meaning to try the 'skin' option in Cura and not getting around to it. so you're saying that if I print a 0.2mm layer object with skin, the outer surface will look as if it had been printed at 0.1mm with only a slight degradation in printing time?
I think I misunderstood the difference between that and infill every N layers then - are they not equivalent?
Cura - print at 0.2mm/layer with skin = slic3r - print at 0.1mm/layer infill every 2 layers?
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joergen 2
This is a very fundamental difference between cura and slic3r (and NF for that matter): Skin (in cura) is just printing the outer loop twice with half the layer height... nothing gained in terms of resolutions, steps are exactly the same steps. "skin" in NF (half layer) is increasing the slicing resolution, and the number of layers double up.... "infill every N layers" is supposedly the smartest solution, since you get real resolution, while things that can be printed thicker (infill) just does
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