Difference between revisions of "SETTINGS/General/Support Material/Support Options/Air Gap"

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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.
 
|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.
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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.}}
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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:Z Gap-ss-ex1.png]]

Revision as of 13:38, 8 March 2016

A screenshot of the Air Gap setting as seen in MatterControl's SETTINGS pane.

Function

The distance to skip between the support (including interface layers) and the model. For PLA and ABS a value between 0.1 and 0.3 generally works well.

In MatterControl 1.5, Z Gap was changed to Air Gap. Z Gap only worked in increments of the layer height. Air Gap can be any distance.

Parameters

  • millimeters (mm)

Can be zero.

Example(s)

For this example, Support_test.stl is the model used.

mm

In this example, the distance between the top of the support material and the bottom of the model is 0.2 mm.

Air Gap-ss-ex.png

layers

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

Air Gap1-ss-ex.png