Comment on Sensible wall thickness and infill for tall walls?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Bins/boxes should have thicker walls and no infill. Real boxes don’t use infill unless the material lacks compressive strength, as in corrugated cardboard boxes.
If there’s infill it means the walls are thinner than the part design called for.
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I was writing up some additional questions as I didn’t quite get your suggestion, but while writing the response I think I understand. You suggest that I increase wall thickness in the slicer settings to match the model thickness, and not only in the model?
I was hoping to use infill to get some support between the outer walls and avoid having to use too much plastic and not having a single, free-standing wall.
If I understood you correctly, do you have a suggestion to what a suitable wall thickness would be to avoid the issue I described?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Use enough wall loops such that no infill is used.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Good lord no. Don’t do that. That would be a waste of filament and also cause a host of other problems for you.
Determining how many walls and perimeters you might need for any print, depends on how much you intend to stuff in your bin and what size nozzle you are using.
Usually, I use a .60mm nozzle to print gridfinity parts. That way I can easily use 2 walls for perimeters. But if you don’t have a .60mm nozzle and only a .40mm, that’s fine too. I would just increase the number of perimeters to 3 and get about the same wall thickness. Using too many walls may cause problems with warping due to uneven cooling. Or if it’s a light duty bin, like one meant to hold small screws, 2 perimeters would work as well and be faster and cheaper to print.
For infill choices, adaptive cubic is just fine for the majority of gridfinity bins, since the majority for strength to be had in 3D prints comes from the top, bottom, and perimeters, (and this is why we increase those for get the strength). But if you need the extra strength, something like gyroid works well, (and you’re maxed out at 20% infill).
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Just to be clear, it is the “hoping to use infill to get some support” that your response is aimed at, right? Out of curiosity, what kind of problems could I be looking at for this?
In the meantime, I’ve been printing some smaller bins of about half the height of my problem where I increased the wall thickness of the model from the default 0.95 mm to 2 mm, and used 3 perimeters, which resulted in fairly sturdy walls.
Looking at the same bin with 2 mm walls without infill, and 3 mm walls with infill, there is barely any difference in material usage.