Cura Slicer Fun Designing 3d Printed Coasters with Infill, Top & Bottom Settings

3d Printer Slicers should be a valuable tool in your design process. In this video, you will learn about the top and bottom layer parameters you can use to design fascinating coasters and other models.

While this video covers the mechanics of Cura 4.11, the concepts apply to any 3d Model slicer.

Included in this video is the following content:

00:00 Introduction
02:08 Cura Slicer Terminology
05:38 Cura Hands-On: Top and Bottom Layers and Infill
10:19 Printing without Top and Bottom Layers
11:02 Infill Options for Coasters
12:56 Top and Bottom Parameters
14:44 Advanced Top and Bottom Parameters

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