Mastering Wall Thickness Settings in Cura 5

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In this video, we'll dive into the topic of wall thickness in 3D printing. Wall thickness is a crucial setting to adjust because it directly affects the strength, durability, and overall quality of your prints.
In this comprehensive guide, we'll cover everything you need to know about wall thickness. We'll start by explaining what it is and why it matters, and then show you how to adjust it in your slicer software. We'll also discuss the impact of wall thickness on print speed, and common issues you may encounter when adjusting this setting.
Finally, we'll share some tips to help you find your optimal wall thickness, so you can achieve the best possible print quality and strength. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced 3D printing enthusiast, this video is packed with useful information to help you master the art of wall thickness. So, let's get started!
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00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Importance of Wall Thickness
00:59 - 6 Things about Wall Thickness
01:41 - What is Wall Thickness
01:56 - Why it Matters
02:27 - Accuracy
03:06 - Save $
03:43 - Wall Thickness Setting
04:56 - Wall Line Count Setting
05:26 - Printed Wall Thickness Examples
07:35 - THANK YOU!
08:22 - Impact of Speed
09:12 - Common Issues
11:37 - Tips & Tricks
14:44 - Wall Ordering Setting
18:39 - Optimize Wall Printing Order Setting
20:18 - Alternate Extra Wall Setting
21:48 - Horizontal Expansion Setting
25:13 - Hole Horizontal Expansion Setting
26:35 - Z-Seam
26:56 - What is a Z-Seam
27:30 - Z-Seam Setting
30:46 - Picking Your Z-Seam
32:38 - Why Z-Seam Matters
33:09 - What I Look At
33:36 - Chris’ Extras

[@davidabernathy3197]

Jesus Christ dude you dropped the fat man of knowledge bombs on me. So many problems I’ve had with many different prints, all minor but shouldn’t have to fix post print, can all be addressed with this one video. Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Glad the video help you.

[@3Dgifts]

Love your video series, they are awesome. I post replies in Reddit referencing your channel when posters are looking to up their game or solve printing problems. Thank you for all you do!

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

That so awesome thanks for sharing. I’m just trying to help as many people as possible.

[@WavePuntFrl]

Hi Chris, i want to thank you for explaining in a understandable way. Thank you for your time and efford you put in these Cura video's.

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Your very welcome. I’m glad I could break it down easy enough. This stuff confuses me still to this day. I find breaking things up one setting at a time works for me. So I figured it would work for everyone else too. 😃 Thanks for your comment.

[@Toysojah671]

​@@ItsMeaDMaDehello love your videos there awesome and great help. I do have a question and need help. Whats the best setting to do when i want to make a print solid using cura. Do I maxamize my walls or infill? And if its walls do i only do walls or even top and bottom layers, also will doing any of that change the actual size of my print

[@josephpk4878]

I just learned why to be careful with that Outside To Inside wall setting. I had a 0.5mm fillet overhang on a box and the outermost layers were just hanging there like clotheslines. Next time, I'll design the model with tolerance and print inside first. These videos are an excellent source of well though opinions and good hard facts.

[@wolfman75]

Great Info!!! Thanks Chris!!! Catch Up Time!!!👍🙏🤞😎

[@KingKongTube83]

i really learning so much in these videos! appreciate you so much.

[@deltajohnny]

Great video, and very clearly explained! 👏👏😉😉

[@tamsinp7711]

Small correction on your explanation of "Optimise Wall Printing Order". It still prints the walls in the specified order, but if you have multiple separate areas of a model (eg. two legs) it will complete all the walls for one leg before doing the other, rather than doing the inner walls of both legs and then doing the outer walls.

[@WoolaMartian]

So, as far as Quality and Strength go, is it better to enable Wall Optimization or nah?

[@andyb7754]

Great information in the video, as always. Thank you.

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

No problem hope it was helpful!

[@Enjoymentboy]

I found a great solution to having to come up with an explanation of why you have to buy more filament when you just bought some last week. When you do buy it buy 15kg at a time. So far I haven't run out. Granted, I have 30+kg on hand but I'm not even close to running out of any that I use on a regular basis.

[@richardsimmons6470]

Its really interesting to see how much filament is at the bottom of the cone And that extra wall its like bricks in a building Amazing Chris this is a great Video

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Yeah it’s always good to see what it’s doing. Thanks for the comment

[@MightyRengarrr]

Dude i really apriaciate the passion and effort on your videos. Thanks for the info

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Your very welcome. Teaching and 3D printing are my two passions. Being able to combine them is the best of both worlds. Thanks for the comment!

[@Radian76]

My Ender 3 S1 consistently expands the walls too much (such a peg to thick, hole too narrow). I think your tips on Outside to in and/or negative horizontal expansion and/or hole expansion are going to work wonders for me. Thank you!

[@Davidjones-sk4vf]

Great content!!! How do I have varied wall counts through the model? Say for instance two walls at the beginning then transition to single wall then at the top back to double wall?

[@ahmedabdel-dayem3689]

Ur the best out there ❤

[@vitale6633]

Great Advice !!

[@brandonh3763]

So is this adding walls to the outside diameter or closing in the inside also? Im trying to stay with same inner opening diameter and outside wall doesn't matter but is too thin currently.

[@1937Brett]

When you use your random settings for z seam what do u do to not get dents

[@emertonfrost3292]

Thanks man ❤

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

You're welcome 😊

[@swanseajack123abc]

Nice video, and nice singing!! :)

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Ha ha. Thanks. I free style from time to time. 😅

[@larryfroot]

​@@ItsMeaDMaDe Looks like a Welshman has complimented you on your singing! Carry that as a badge of pride 😊

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

@@larryfroot I shall indeed. 😁

[@airsubzero]

What I got: Precise Printing: outer walls first fast vs strong Alternate Extra Wall Setting : inner-weaving the infill with the wall, One ON skips another Horizontal Expansion Setting: adds or subtracts from the dimensions of the part horizontally Initial layer Horizontal Expansion: affects only the first layer, kinda of Brim Hole Horizontal Expansion: make up for print accuracy that way I can design without taking into consider Printer accuracy [ practically: it produces artifacts and gaps in model ] User Specified Z-Seam & smart hiding go hand in hand Jump Points are weak points - Outer Wall Wipe Distance is the distance that the 3D printer moves without extruding filament at the end of each layer before moving on to the next one. “wipes” the extra filament onto the wall, instead of leaving a the blob at the seam. > that retracts filament before a layer change, reducing the pressure in the extruder that causes the blob at the Z seam. "Changing Z seam alignment doesn’t improve tolerances, and coasting requires finely tuned retraction settings" - Print thin walls: In > places of the 3D model, walls are the only printed part. When the model is extremely sharp, This setting allows walls to be printed that are thinner than the nozzle size.

[@barbpaz3636]

I have a question, I’m new to the game and I have an Ender-3 S1 pro. When I purchased a file it automatically went to creality slicer. I had the Cura downloaded. Now that I have been watching all your excellent videos, my question is this: once my STL is changed to the gcode, is their anyway to fix it in the Cura?

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Hi Barb! Welcome to the hobby! Thats a great question. So once you bring your file into Cura and hit slice and save the gcode you can no longer edit the file. You can open it in cura and it will give you a preview but thats it. If you need to make edits you have re-import your model and start over. Alternately you can save a cura project file before you slice. Then after you save your GCode you can always go back to your project file make edits then reslice the file again. I hope that helps. Best of luck printing!

[@barbpaz3636]

Thank you for your answer. I am understanding a lot more thanks to your invaluable information! 😊

[@kartavianmacrath7219]

Is there, other than cost of material and time of print, a downside to 100% infill? I have printed a skull island and a haunted house at 100% but whenever I try infill patterns, they end up failing more often than just slow and 100% infill. Also, the more settings I work, the better some things get, but my bridging just gets worse, lol

[@WarrenPenner]

Where can I download the .stl for those snazzy mustache protectors?

[@ItsMeaDMaDe]

Haha. I just made them in tinkercad. If you’ve never used it I recommend it’s a great free 3D cad app. I did a series teaching how to use it.

[@WarrenPenner]

@@ItsMeaDMaDe JK! Thanks for the chuckles!

[@gabrioche9855]

how i can do if my wall thikness is disabled i can see it but i can't change it it's lock at 0.8...

[@Smokkedandslammed]

It locks put when you change the wall line count, if you leave the wall count alone you can change it.

[@94todd]

Man really did his mustache like that on purpose, and said "yeah. That's how I want to be seen by thousands of people" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tasso6196]

7:01 That's what she said

[@IAmTheVector]

I bet you believe that optimization actually works, but you never actually tested it, in fact, if you do not deactivate the "group external wall" on the experimental setup (which is set ON as standard) it will not optimize anything. Test and try, try and test.