September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 43m
English
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APPENDIX A
Typical Printer Settings
Several chapters in this book, most notably Chapters 5 and 8, discuss settings for slicing a file. If you use Slic3r, you may be intimidated by all the settings you see in the Configure panel. The Slic3r manual (http://manual.slic3r.org/) defines all these in detail, and we will not reproduce those definitions here.
Printer settings are something that, like recipes, you will experiment with and evolve over time. The Slic3r settings provided here are appropriate for a Deezmaker Bukobot, which is a fairly typical RepRap printer, except perhaps for having somewhat higher speeds than some. The author thanks Rich ...