Monday, August 19, 2013

Extra Shells = More Efficient!

Currently working on printing a scale model of a certain luxury sport sedan for work, and realized that slicing with 2 extra shells in ReplicatorG yielded a 1.5 hour reduction in estimated print time!  Also noticed that for internal areas where ReplicatorG used to fill in a solid block, it's now printing with proper hexagonal infill.

It COULD however, be the fact that I'm also using 0.25mm layer heights instead of my normal 0.3mm as well.  Maybe areas where the extreme angles of the car surface required a solid infill layer is now supported better by the lower layer height, as well as the extra shell.  More testing is required!