Afinia H479 3D - Manual (Page 24)

Afinia H-Series 3D Printer User’s Manual
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Fill Settings
There are four ways to fill the interior of the parts, as described below.
Shell
Selecting the Shell setting will allow you to print a solid part as hollow by removing the fill material
regardless of the Fill setting.
For example, when printing a sphere 4cm in diameter at 0.15mm resolution, the most open fill
setting, and the rest of the settings at the default values will use 9.3 grams of filament and print in
61 minutes. Checking the Shell setting will reduce the material use to 5.4 grams and print time to
36 minutes by not printing the fill material.
Some models may not be suited to printing with the Shell setting checked.
This will not affect the printed model’s wall thickness or support material requirements.
Surface
Selecting the Surface setting will allow you to print a model as a single-layer outline of the model
perimeter. Note that this setting will not work with models having a base, solid top, or requiring
any inner fill structure.
The part is nearly solid plastic, giving you the
strongest structure. This Fill setting is
recommended for functional engineering
parts. The interior of the part is filled with a
reasonably small scaffold structure. This is
the default Fill setting.
The interior of the part is filled with a medium
spaced scaffold structure. The interior of the part is filled with a large
spaced scaffold structure, using the least
amount of material.
Mac setting: Solid
Mac setting: Hollow
Mac setting: Loose
Mac setting: Big Hole