I want you to click on the
Advanced Controls
button to bring up the
Settings
,
Controls
,
and
Configuration
pane.
Click on the
SETTINGS
link to make sure your display follows (by and large) what you
see below.
The first thing I want you to do is click on the
Show Help
check box that's highlighted by
the arrow in the image above. This will turn on verbose descriptions of each one of the
parameters available in the Settings page.
I'm going to only cover the “Simple” configuration settings for right now. There's a LOT
that goes on to configuring your slicer and the Simple configuration setting allows many of those
to be hidden until you're more comfortable with how your printer works.
Layer Height
– This parameter tells the slicing engine how thin to make the layers when
it slices up the model as I described earlier. A good default layer height is 0.2 or 0.25mm. The
lowest practical layer height with a 0.5mm nozzle is 0.1mm. You can go lower than that, but it
requires a smaller nozzle diameter. You can also got a lot thicker, but that requires a larger
nozzle. If you change the Quality from
Standard
to
Coarse
or
Fine
, you'll notice how the layer
height changes.
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