1.3----- simple setting of 3D slicing software

Now at home level 3D There are three main steps in using a printer （ in the light of FDM type ）： modeling ——》 section ——》 Print .

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1. modeling ： In fact, students majoring in machinery should be familiar with , Just use Creo,SolidWorks,UG,Catia And other things that software often does . then 3D Printing is slightly different , The final output of mechanical design is engineering drawing , That is, the tolerance is marked , Machining drawing of 2D drawing and material data . and 3D After the design is completed, the general output of printing is STL file ,STL The file will be sent to slicing software for slicing , So as to obtain the movement track of the nozzle .

2. section ： This is going to STL The file is automatically sliced by algorithm , There are mainly two slices , One is Slices of entities , The other one is Supported slice .STL The file contains only entities , Does not include support . Support is actually very simple to understand , For example, you designed a suspended structure , This structure no matter how you put it , There is a section in the air , Do not touch the printing platform . At this time, we need support . For example, the hole in the following figure , The software will automatically generate the supporting structure when slicing . The support will drag the suspended part of the material , So as to reduce the occurrence of printing errors . After slicing , Will generate a G Code file , This document will guide the movement of the nozzle , Print out entities layer by layer .

3. Print ： This step actually has two parts. One is Commissioning of the machine （ Equipment environment preparation ）, The other is Machine printing . The debugging of the machine means that the machine should be debugged to the best working state , for example ： Leveling of the platform , Loading of the printing tray, etc . This is actually very simple , When the printer doesn't go wrong , Just plug in and load G The memory card of the code can be directly punched . But if something goes wrong with the printer , For example, printing failed , such as Edge warping , Plug , Broken material And so on , You need to find out the problem , There may be a problem with the slice parameter settings , Or printer hardware problems , Need to debug , solve the problem . So the ability to debug and solve problems is also very important . The working principle of the printer is also very simple to understand , Namely MCU Read the memory card G Code , Control the movement of multiple stepping motors , The stepping motor drives the nozzle to move , Extrude print material , To print out the entity .

Slicing Software ：

Just started 3D When the printer , Used to Simplify 3D This slicing Software . Later, the computer was changed , Just use it Cura, A few days ago, I want to print a large structure , It's basically my one 3D The printer is out of range . This big structure , use Cura section , To print 58 Hours , I fuck . I didn't consider changing the software at that time , But I was really surprised .

Because the object is large , Insufficient material in the material tray , So I took a roll of black consumables that I had left at home for half a year , Something went wrong ：3D Printer consumables are damp

And then there's no way , Got a new roll of supplies , For a long time , It's finally over . I don't know what to think , Want to try another slicing Software , So he took it out again Simplify 3D This slicing software found , Everything was startled , This slice is really fast .Cura Cutting this structure is directly stuck , I refer to B standing Up A tutorial for ：Simplify 3D Print slice tutorial , Reconfigured slice parameters , Half the time is lost , Down to 20 More than one hour ... I was so excited at that time , ha-ha .

and Simplify 3D This software generates support , It's beautiful and easy to disassemble ,Cura The support is ugly , And hard to dismantle , It's a long time , It should not be used later Cura It's sliced .

Parameter setting ：

You can go to this if you need to experience more detailed setting steps UP In the tutorial of ：Simplify 3D Slicing tutorial

Here is a record of my simple setup steps ：

Software use ： Rotate with the left mouse button , The middle mouse button automatically returns to its original position , Right click to pan .

Set up ：

1. Set the size of the printing platform and the type of printer , And speed units .

2. Extrusion settings

3. The height ： This and Print fineness and Overall printing speed of .

4. additional ： Only the skirt is set here , The skirt edge is to print a few circles on the outside , Make sure there is no problem with the nozzle .

5. fill

6. brace

7. temperature ： By default, there is no hot bed temperature , So we need to manually add the temperature of the hot bed , We need to add it manually .

8. cooling ： Set to step cooling , Increase the adhesion viscosity of the bottom layer

9. Script ： This is actually Start printing and End printing The position of the nozzle at that time , All to set , Otherwise, it will stop on the model , It will burn the model .

; Start script 
G92 Z0;
G0 Z10 F300;
G28;
G1 Z5 F300;
G1 X0 Y0 F3600;
G1 Z0.2 F300;
G92 E0;
G1 E8 F300;

; End script 
M107;
G92 E0;
G1 E-2 F300;
G1 X205 Y205 F2000; Move to the upper right corner （X:205mm Y:205mm）, This should be set according to the size of your printer 
M104 S0 ; turn off extruder
M140 S0 ; turn off bed
M84 ; disable motors

10. Speed

11. senior

12. other

This contains a bridge setting , But I don't think this bridge is reliable , Sometimes support generation is unreasonable because of this setting . If the support is automatically generated , After slicing, take a look at the support generation , Prevent problems .