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Changing infill density partway through a print.

🕑 Added 2022-05-06 15:28:35 +0000 UTC

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Stephanie

Thank you.

Jeff

Agree the lightning infill is awesome it will automatically calculate the areas requiring a higher density of infill and reduces printing time by huge margins

Kwas's Kreations

Awesome!! This was an amazing tip!! Thank you so much!!

Dan

Oh, I'm surprised that would happen! But adding more infill should fix the problem.

Try the lightning infill. cup=4hrs 25mm/s 15% infill 29g 7 bottom layers. big ball 9.5 hrs 25mm/s 10% infill 47g 6bottom layers.

SneakySmurf

Hi Dan, yeah I set this up for the elephant. When I sized him up to a full ender 5 bed, he was falling forward on the big ball. So I change the head and the body to different infills trying to balance him out a little.

Dan

that's an interesting idea

J Maxx

Thank you for the tutorial Dan, I need all the help I can get when it comes to Cura settings..😏I really appreciate it🙋🏽‍♀️

Makerworld king

yup. used this trick on a turtle wherethe start of his antenna holes printed in mid air. but the turtle needed to be hollow for led lights, i put infill just under the two holes. learned from chep. its a good thing to know

Or switch to Lightning infill, works wel.

North3DNZ

Wow did not know, there has been a few times this would of been handy. Now I know

This is a great tutorial that will help many. Now, here is one for you. If you were to export a separate stl of just the joints of your models, you could use this in prusaslicer as a modifier (much like you are slicing a 2 colour model for example) to give whatever % Infill you want at the critical points and therefore, get away with less infill for the rest of the model and reduce print times and save filament maybe. Crazy idea but I think it will work well as I tested a functional part at work to do the same on my ultimaker S5 and also made my own modifier shape and manually added it to joints in one of your models before slicing to test and got a decent result but with some overlapping of the higher infill where the modifier didn’t fully match the model shape, but it worked 😊