The concept of staggered (or brick) layers in FDM prints has grow to be very fashionable the previous few years, with now nightly builds of OrcaSlicer that includes the ‘Stagger Perimeters’ choice to automate the method, as demonstrated by [Stefan] in a latest CNC Kitchen video. See the related OrcaSlicer GitHub thread for the precise particulars, and to acquire a construct with this characteristic. After putting in, slice the mannequin as regular, after enabling this new parameter within the ‘Energy’ tab.
Within the video, [Stefan] first tries out a daily and staggered perimeter print with out additional changes. This maybe surprisingly ends in the staggered model breaking earlier than the common print, which [Stefan] deduces to be the results of rising voids throughout the print. After rising the extrusion charge to 110% to refill mentioned voids, this does certainly outcome within the staggered half displaying a large increase in power.
What’s maybe extra telling is {that a} related constructive impact is noticed when the stream is elevated with the non-staggered half, albeit with the staggered half nonetheless displaying extra of a power enhance. This makes it apparent that simply staggering layers isn’t sufficient, however that the flowrate and presumably different parameters need to be adjusted as nicely to totally understand the potential of brick layers. That mentioned, it’s encouraging to see this shifting ahead regardless of questionable patent claims.
