There are a number of print settings available to define your FFF machine. These settings can be saved to a profile for future use.
Print Settings
The print settings are accessed using the Print Settings button.
After you define the print settings, you can add them to a custom profile. You can also remove an existing custom profile, export a profile, import a previously defined profile, or rename a custom profile.
Basic Settings
- Layer height: Thickness of each deposited layer (mm).
- Num. perimeters: Maximum number of shells to use for the exterior skin of the part.
- Sparse infill density: Density of the infill material.
- Sparse infill pattern: The pattern of the infill material of the print. Choose between a rectilinear or honeycomb infill pattern.
- Enable raft: If enabled, several coarse layers of material are placed below the part to help increase adhesion and reduce warping.
- Bed size: Specify the X, Y, and Z dimensions (mm) of the build area.
- Bed offset: Specify any X, Y, or Z offset (mm) to be applied to the toolpaths.
Note: Toolpaths are initially created with X=0, Y=0, and Z=0 set to the center of the build plate. If a printer defines its origin at a different location, any necessary offsets may be applied there.
- Home position: Specify the X, Y, and Z coordinates (mm) for the home position of the extruder.
- Park position: Specify the X, Y, and Z coordinates (mm) for the park position of the extruder.
Support Settings
- Support enabled: Enable/disable generation of structures to support parts of the model which have overhangs. Without these structures, such parts would collapse during printing.
- Overhang angle: Angle threshold (in degrees). Any face whose angle exceeds this threshold will have supports generated to support it.
- Shell outer offset ratio: Distance to offset the outer support wall for an overhang perimeter. Distance is driven as a ratio of the extrusion width.
- Shell inner offset ratio: Distance to offset the inner support wall for an overhang perimeter. Distance is driven as a ratio of the extrusion width.
- Seam width: Width of the seam where the support bonds with the part.
- Bridge length: Maximum allowable length of a bridging extrusion, before an additional support column must be inserted.
- Object Z-bump: Distance to move up in Z when printing support paths over the object. Increasing this value reduces the bond between the part and support, which aids in remove of support.
- Infill Z-bump: Distance to move up in Z when printing infill paths over support. Increasing this value reduces the bond between the part and support, which aids in remove of support.
- Infill anchor: Distance to maintain final Z position before printing part above the outer shell support.
- Supported anchor Z-bump: How far above the anchored support the actual part will float.
- Supported perimeter Z-bump: How far above the support shell the perimeter will float.
- Extrusion width mult. structure: What extrusion rate should the support structures have. This value is a ratio of the effective extrusion width.
Extruder Settings
- Extruder temperature: The temperature of the extruder when printing.
- Build surface temperature: The temperature of the build surface when printing.
- Filament diameter: The diameter of the filament to be printed.
- Extruder retract length: The amount to pull filament backwards, out of the nozzle, when a retraction is necessary.
- Extruder retract speed: The speed to pull filament backwards, out of the nozzle, when a retraction is necessary.
Infill Settings
- Sparse infill angle: Rotation transform to be applied to all infill patterns.
- Solid infill angle: Rotation transform to be applied to all sollidfill patterns.
- Single pass connect: Naïve slicing option in order to enable faster toolpath generation.
Extrusion Settings
- Perimeter overlap ratio: Ratio overlap of adjacent perimeters.
- Perimeter-infill overlap ratio: Ratio of extrusion width to amount that the inner-most perimeter will make contact with infill.
- Layer 1 extrusion width multiplier: Multiply all extrusion widths by this amount when on the first layer.
- Extrusion width multiplier: Multiply all extrusion widths by this amount.
- Draw inner perimeters first: If selected, perimeters will start from the inside and work out. If not selected, the perimeters will start from the outside and work inward.
- Extrusion width: The desired width of a single extrusion.
Layer Settings
- Layer 1 height: The height of the first layer.
- Num. top shells: Number of layers to print solid when printing the top of an object.
- Num. bottom shells: Number of layers to print solid when printing the bottom of an object.
- Randomize perimeter start points: Randomize perimeter start points.
Speed Settings
- Internal perimeter speed: Speed to print all non-external perimeters.
- External perimeter speed: Speed to print the external-facing perimeter.
- Sparse infill speed: Speed when printing sparse infill.
- Solid infill speed: Speed when printing solid infill.
- Travel speed: Speed at which the print head moves while it is not extruding material.
- Layer 1 speed multiplier: Speed multiplier to be applied to all movements made when printing the first layer.
- Raft layer 1 speed: Speed when printing the first layer of a raft.
- Raft layers 2+ speed: Speed when printing any layers of the rafter after the first layer.
- Bridge speed: Speed when printing a bridge.
- Support speed: Speed when printing support material.
Cooling Settings
- Minimum extrusion speed: Minimum allowed extrusion speed.
- Num. layers fan disabled: The fan is disabled for the first <n> layers to aid build plate adhesion.
- Min. time per layer: A minimum allowed time, per layer ensures providing ample time for each layer to cool. This value is overridden by the minimum extrusion speed.
- Fan enabled: Enable/disable generation of fan enable/disable gcode commands.
Skirt/brim Settings
- Num. skirt/brim loops: Number of skirt/brim loops around an object.
- Skirt/brim distance: Distance the skirt/brim will be offset from the part.
- Skirt/brim min. length: Minimum length of extrusion per layer to use for skirt/brim. Add loops until this length is reached.
G-code Settings
- Start G-code: G-code to be inserted at the beginning of the file.
- End G-code: G-code to be inserted at the end of the file.
- Layer change G-code: G-code to be inserted between each layer.
- Verbose G-code: Enable/disable comments in the g-code.
Raft Settings
- Raft base fill density: Density of the first layer of the raft.
- Raft base height: Layer height of the first layer of the raft.
- Raft base ext. with mult.: Apply this multiplier value to the original extrusion width value.
- Raft interface infill density: The infill amount of the layer(s) between the raft's first layer and top layers.
- Num. raft interface layers: Number of raft interface layers. The interface is the middle section of the raft.
- Raft interface height: The layer height of the interface layer.
- Raft border distance: The amount to offset the raft from the part.
- Num. raft surface layers: The number of surface layers on the raft. The surface layer(s) are the top portion of the raft.
- Raft surface height: The layer height for each raft surface layer.
- Raft Z-bump: The distance the actual part is displaced from the raft. This can be used to tune the part's adhesion to the raft.
- Zigzag raft base: Enable/disable a zigzag pattern on the base layer of the raft.
- Raft base run distance: Distance the raft base (first layer) will extrude before breaking into zigzag sections.
- Raft base turn distance: Distance the raft base will run after breaking into zigzag sections.
- Raft base gap distance: Distance between sections of a zigzag raft.
Bridging Settings
- Bridging enabled: Enable/disable bridging.
- Bridge extension with mult.: Extrusion multiplier value for when extruding a bridging feature.
- Bridge max. length: Minimum bridging feature length. Below this value, any extrusions will not be treated as bridges.
Prime Settings
- Prime extrusion multiplier: Extrusion multiplier when priming the nozzle.
- Nozzle priming enabled: Enable/disable priming at the beginning of a print.
Version Settings
- Engine version: The version of the Torpedo FFF engine.
- Plugin version: The version of the Torpedo FFF plugin.