On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:00:13 PM UTC-4, Joseph Chiu wrote:
> When you turn on skin, do you use a slower feed as well on the skin, while
> keeping fill faster?  I recently saw a really slow and thin print on a
> Bukobot, and I have to say that the quality was fantastic.

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, ddurant wrote:

>> Skin is a skeinforge (skeinforge = software that chops up the model to
>> gcode, which the machine can understand) option that splits up the outer
>> surfaces of an object into multiple layers.

>> The result is that the visible portions of the object get printed at a
>> higher resolution than the interior of the object. There is disagreement on
>> how valuable this is but worst case, you get nicer prints without the added
>> time-expense of doing the infill at high resolution.

>> On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:01:10 PM UTC-4, Blizzard wrote:

>>> @Martin Galese
>>> What do you mean by set the Skin plugin at 4x?
>>> Thanks for all the responses so far (even though some went a bit
>>> offtopic), also I'm glad this thread could help Cymon with now having the
>>> convenience of printing at 0.1mm. I think I'm most likely getting the
>>> Replicator.

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