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.
In S3D you will need to set the printer type to QIDI Tech-1. I am assuming that is the one you have and not the X-one!
S3D is already setup to export the proper files.
If you have the Tech-1 it actually uses an X3G file. When S3D exports the file to SD card you can look and see a gcode file and a X3G file. the X3G is what the TEch-1 will read.
When you put the SD card in the reader for the Tech-1 and select to print it will give an error. Hit the back arrow and select print again and this time the files should be listed.
Now, if you have the X-one printer then it does use gcode instead of X3G. Set S3D printer type to QIDI X-one and it will output the proper file to the SD card.
I have both printers from QIDI and use S3D regularly so I am happy to help if I can.
