Hey everyone! Is it possible to print a honeycomb structure in the bottom layers

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Hey everyone! Is it possible to print a honeycomb structure in the bottom layers instead of solid layers?

I am printing on a prusa (marlin sprinter firmware)

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Depends on your slicer, you can set bottom layer thickness to 0.

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in slic3r, you can set solid layers to 0 and then it will do the infill pattern on the bottom or top.
It is in Print Settings>layers and Perimeters > Horizontal shells

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Indeed, but that is not what i need. I don’t want infill in the rest of my object. Just the first 10 layers or so…

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so you want a hollow object after 10 layers? Can you not design the object to be that way?
Solid for 2.5 mm(or whatever 10 times your layer height is) and then hollow for the rest of the height. That is fairly trivial CAD work.
Then slice it with:
Honeycomb fill with 0 top and bottom solid layers. It will do the base of the object in honeycomb and then just the shells around the top.

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In that case, not that I know off. You would have to model the object that way, or tinker with the slicer code (if it’s open-source).

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Ah thanks. I allready did it the manual way. Just designed the honeycomb pattern.

Thanks guys!

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With Simplify3D you can use different slicing settings for different layer ranges easily, however it doesn’t seem to have honeycomb infill.

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Also it’s $60 (or more?).

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@Shachar_Weis $140, but it’s a very powerful software.

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I wish they gave out a demo version, because I’m not spending that without even trying it.