SETTINGS/General/Support Material/Support Options/Air Gap - Revision history

Tanderson at 19:51, 31 December 2018

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 In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.}}
 Here's an animation which will hopefully demonstrate a little better how the air gap works. As you can see, the first layer of the part is lifted up for the air gap, but then for the second layer it moves back down to where it would have been otherwise. In other words, the air gap does not shift the entire object up, only the first layer. This ensures that the first layer is loosely connected to the support, but subsequent layers are printed normally.
 [[File:Air Gap Animation.gif]]

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 {{Slice Settings
-|The distance to skip between the support (including [[Settings/General/Support Material/Support Options/Interface Layers|interface layers]]) and the model. For PLA and ABS a value between 0.1 and 0.3 generally works well.
+|The distance to skip between the support (including [[Settings/General/Support Material/Support Options/Interface Layers|interface layers]]) and the model. For ABS and PLA a value between 0.4 and 0.6 generally works well.
 In [[Release_Notes#1.5|MatterControl 1.5]], {{oldid|Settings/General/Support_Material/Support_Options/Air_Gap|1895|Z Gap}} was changed to Air Gap. Z Gap only worked in increments of the layer height. Air Gap can be any distance.|*millimeters (mm)

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	In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.}}		In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.}}
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		+	Here's an animation which will hopefully demonstrate a little better how the air gap works. As you can see, the first layer of the part is lifted up for the air gap, but then for the second layer it moves back down to where it would have been otherwise. In other words, the air gap does not shift the entire object up, only the first layer. This ensures that the first layer is loosely connected to the support, but subsequent layers are printed normally.
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		+	[[File:Air Gap Animation.gif]]

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	In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.}}		In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.}}
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−	~~=== layers ===~~
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−	~~In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 3 layers~~
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−	~~[[File:Air Gap-ss-ex1.png]]~~

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	In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 3 layers		In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 3 layers

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 |The distance to skip between the support (including [[Settings/General/Support Material/Support Options/Interface Layers|interface layers]]) and the model. For PLA and ABS a value between 0.1 and 0.3 generally works well.
-In MatterControl 1.5, {{oldid|Settings/General/Support_Material/Support_Options/Air_Gap|1895|Z Gap}} was changed to Air Gap. Z Gap only worked in increments of the layer height. Air Gap can be any distance.|*millimeters (mm)
+In [[Release_Notes#1.5|MatterControl 1.5]], {{oldid|Settings/General/Support_Material/Support_Options/Air_Gap|1895|Z Gap}} was changed to Air Gap. Z Gap only worked in increments of the layer height. Air Gap can be any distance.|*millimeters (mm)
 Can be zero.|