Click on the
Simple
setting drop down and pick
Intermediate
. Your MatterControl
settings screen should change to something resembling the image below.
Quite a number of new configuration options are accessible under the
Intermediate
settings level. The first set of options we'll tackle live under the
heading.
Layers/Perimeters
– This setting page allows you tweak the layer height just as before
when in
Simple
mode, but now adds the
Perimeters
setting. This setting is often called “shells”
because it controls how thick the “skin” of your printed object is going to be. The default is 2
perimeters.
On the left is an example of what two perimeters look like.
When the cube is being printed, the #2 perimeter is printed first
and then the #1 perimeter. (The order is configurable.)
In the image below you can see what those perimeters
actually look like on the cube we printed earlier.
Infill
- The
Intermediate
level
adds
Infill Type
in addition to the
Fill
Density
figure we covered before. The infill types available are
Triangles
,
Concentric
,
Grid
,
and
Lines
. Examples are shown below.
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