I finished a print, a hollow cylinder and it is all faceted like a low resolution picture on the round surfaces. This was not present in the cad drawing, is there a setting in Creality Print (Orca also) that minimizes or eliminates that.
This is the slicers interpretation of the CAD information. A lot of CAD programs do not give “round information” but are faceted. Fusion360, Solidworks do not seem to do this but most CAD programs do ( Autocad and similiar). There is not a setting I know of to fix this in a slicer but would have to be re-created in another CAD program. Not much help I know, just FIY.
Thanks.
I did some more research and found out that in Cura there is Arc welder that fixes this problem but in Prusa slicer, Orca, Creality Print and Bamboo slicer the equivalent fix is Arc Fitter and it doesn’t work. If you look at the g code there are G3 commands but if the Arc Fitter is turned off the G3 commands disappear. The end result is that there is little to no difference in the print.
Depending on the CAD software there are settings to control the number of Facets. Fusion certainly does, under save as mesh. High middle, low or custom refinement.
the refinement control the facets.
That helped a lot. As a long time user of" Inventor" Fusion 360 would be a easy switch, since I no longer have access to Inventor but I don’t like the online presents, logins etc. Now I use Solidedge, which is free (full version of their commercial version and free to home users. Siemens put it out) and equivalent to Inventor, Solidworks etc. So after reading your post I looked around You Tube and found a video that explained exactly what you did in you post. I can now get facet free curves. Thanks.
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No problem. I know fusion, but typical of all software basic functions are similar.