I am less experienced than a novice and would like to pose to the community a couple of problems. I designed a cube to test printing on Qidi Tech One [2] Printer. I did this by making a 2d square in the work area and then extending the square to make a cube. I brought it into Slicer and exported it as a gcode file. Then I imported it into Simplify3d and printed. I had wanted to fill it 100% but instead ended up with a cube with no interior except for light structural support.
1. What could be the reasons I end up with an almost vacant interior?
In Simplify 3D you’ll want to change the infill to 100%, either by using the slicer at the top of the edit process area, or in the infill tab specifically.
Doing this may cause other problems, however, so unless your print needs to be truly solid I would recommending using 50% infill at most, and increasing your number of shells instead.
Thanks so much for your reply. Unfortunately I have tried the infill setting at 70%, 90%, and 100% all resulting in a hollow interior. I remain perplexed. Any other ideas?
Are you sure that the cube that you designed is solid? Maybe it’s only a shell so your slicer make the wall with 100% infill but it leave the rest empty.
Here you can find a small 1cm cube, try to slice/print this with 100% infill, if it prints correcly probably your cube is a shell.
Thank you. The cube prints but the interior is not solid. I needed to convert the stl to gcode and used slic3r to do so. Could that be the source of the problem? When I printed a gcode test file supplied by the manufacturer the interior did fill. Could it be that I am using Mac OS?
At this point it’s a slicer setup problem, check the gcode preview before committing the object to the printer, if the preview show up the infill but the object it’s printed hollow… change slicer, it’s plenty of free slicer, I use ideamaker but you can choose cura, craftware and many others. If the preview doesn’t show the infill, check your printer setup (if you’re using my cube for testing scale it up to 300% to see better the infill shape during the gcode preview), as showed in the image.
