Credo
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Removing tiny infill

Hello,

I'm hoping someone has a quick answer for this problem. I've sliced a part, and I'm getting very small bits of infill, and I can't figure out how to remove them.. My minimum infill length is set to 3.00mm, yet these are still showing up. Not sure where else in the settings I would remove these. They slow the print time significantly. And, because I'm running a bowden set up, there's the retraction and wipe for every single one of these, it makes the whole print process much more cumbersome...

See attached image.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
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rrdavis
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Re: Removing tiny infill

Those look like single extrusions. Try increasing the "minimum extrusion length" settings on the Advanced tab in the single extrusions section
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dkightley
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Re: Removing tiny infill

To me, it looks as if what you're seeing...and interpreting as "tiny" infill....is in fact the path of the layer underneath, and there being a gap in the current layer.

So...rather than wanting to remove .....you should be looking to increase the current infill to fill in the gaps!

Try increasing the outline overlap up to something like 80%.
Doug Kightley
Volunteer at the National Tramway Museum http://www.tramway.co.uk
Railway modeller and webmaster at http://www.talkingtgauge.net
Credo
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Re: Removing tiny infill

I had originally thought the same thing, however it turns out changing the setting for "Internal Thin Wall Type" under the advanced settings to "Perimeters Only" seems to have fixed the problem.
dkightley wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:02 am To me, it looks as if what you're seeing...and interpreting as "tiny" infill....is in fact the path of the layer underneath, and there being a gap in the current layer.

So...rather than wanting to remove .....you should be looking to increase the current infill to fill in the gaps!

Try increasing the outline overlap up to something like 80%.
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dkightley
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Re: Removing tiny infill

I had originally thought the same thing, however it turns out changing the setting for "Internal Thin Wall Type" under the advanced settings to "Perimeters Only" seems to have fixed the problem.
...which is an alternative to the setting change I suggested to cure exactly the same issue....gaps in the infill!
Doug Kightley
Volunteer at the National Tramway Museum http://www.tramway.co.uk
Railway modeller and webmaster at http://www.talkingtgauge.net

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