Any way to change infill % in different parts of prints?

DennisH · January 2017

What I mean is, on a print say with a normal infill of 20% that tapers to a long thin section that is still wide enough that there will be infill, I might want the thin section printed solid for strength instead of 20% infill. Is there any way to set up the slicer to change infill % in different sections of the print?

Or maybe a way that it can be drawn that would cause that. I"m using autocad to draw parts.

I'm using the latest repetier-host on a Windows computer.

Repetier · January 2017

This is possible in slic3r directly. There you can set params for regions intersecting a extra stl that is not printed. Then you slice and load it manually into host/server.

DennisH · January 2017

Repetier said:

This is possible in slic3r directly. There you can set params for regions intersecting a extra stl that is not printed. Then you slice and load it manually into host/server.

Can you explain in a little more detail?

madarren · January 2017

you might check out this sli3r link...It helped me achieve this when I was first getting started.

http://slic3r.org/blog/modifier-meshes

DennisH · January 2017

madarren said:

you might check out this sli3r link...It helped me achieve this when I was first getting started.

http://slic3r.org/blog/modifier-meshes

That looks like it would work. I'll try is later. Thanks.

Any way to change infill % in different parts of prints?

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