December 2017
Beginner
430 pages
8h 55m
English
With FFF/FDM printers, the printer starts with one initial layer which, if all goes well, sticks to the print bed for the duration of the print. If you have seen musings about hairspray, glue sticks, painter's tape, those are all measures to assist that important first layer in staying put. When you are designing for an FFF/FDM printer, it is ideal for the design to have a good footprint, a perfectly flat section to print straight on the print bed.
Sometimes a nice flat base isn’t going to be possible with the design you have in mind. The slicing software for the printer can assist in those cases. For designs that have small footprints that would not have a lot of contact area on the print bed, the slicer ...
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