There’s a major update to the non-planar fuzzy skin script.
Readers may recall a few weeks ago we detailed a new software development from Tenger Technologies that implements a way to make fuzzy skin appear on top surfaces. Normally, fuzzy skin, a standard option in most slicers, takes place only on the XY axis. It’s normally used to reduce the “layer lines” effect by introducing a surface texture.
The “Fuzzyficator” changes that by wobbling the nozzle up and down while printing flat surfaces. This allows (almost) the entire object have a fuzzy surface.
The software has required a separate post-processing step to change the GCODE. Flat surface movements are detected and altered to perform the necessary wobbling. But now there’s a notable change.
Roman Tenger from Tenger Tech advised us that there has been an update to allow direct use of the Fuzzyficator from within three popular 3D print slicing software tools: PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer and Bambu Studio.
In the video above, Tenger explains how to install Fuzzyficator in each of the tools, which are all slightly different. However, the approach is the same: install Fuzzyficator on your workstation, and then set up the slicer to automatically call it as a post processing routine. This effectively integrates the functionality into these tools, as the operator ends up doing nothing aside from hitting the “slice now” button as usual.
This should greatly expand the use of Fuzzyficator among 3D printer operators, as it’s now a bit easier to use it.
It’s not surprising that all three of these tools were supported at once: they are all based off of the same software foundation. Slic3r led to PrusaSlicer, which led to Bambu Studio, which led to OrcaSlicer.
You may have noticed that UltiMaker Cura is not mentioned. That’s because it uses a different software base and a different integration approach must be built. It turns out that Tenger is in fact working on this due to popular demand, and we’ll likely see this version appear soon.
Aside from the software integration, there does seem to be one more interesting additional feature: compensateExtrusion. The idea here is that as the nozzle wobbles upwards, there could be a bit of a gap underneath. The new feature tweaks the extrusion so that more material is extruded to fill (or compensate) these gaps. That will make the prints a bit more solid, and less likely that the fuzzy top surfaces could break away.
The Fuzzyficator seems quite popular, so I am wondering which slicing software producer will decide to directly integrate these capabilities into the base software. Surely one of them will, just as fuzzy skin rapidly appeared on all slicers long ago.
Via GitHub
