Different wall strategy for stronger functional parts
Hi all,
Sometimes I want to print some functional parts and we all know that most filaments are stronger in the direction of the wall then perpendicular to it (ex. in Z direction, but also within the plane perpendicular to the walls in a certain area. Now, for strength with limited material a lattice (I think that's the English term) can be used: a set of crossed beams forming triangles and also attached to each other where they cross. With 3D printing the strongest way to then print that would be if the walls really follow the complete length of each beam, however every slicer I have tried always makes the walls form triangles like the picture below (click it to see the complete thing) instead of having walls going all the way across for better pulling strength. Is there any way to tell the slicer to optimize for that instead of always following the outer contours? Something like: 3 wall following outer contour and another 2 making the longest surrounding contour possible?
Thanks,
K.