Investigation discovers the surprising result that slicers introduce more error into prints than the printer itself.
Not very surprising, slicers do the difficult job of determining every movement the printer will take. Printers just execute those.
Can't watch the video right now. Anyone know which is the best?
As an old toolmaker, Welcome to the world of understanding your process! And knowing the limits of that process.
I wonder what he actually expects for a tolerance day to day. A +/-.1mm IS doable if you're careful. But there is enough randomness in the FDM process, even outside the slicer, that I wouldn't bet the farm on any 1 random piece hitting that tolerance. Let alone repeating that level of tolerance every time over say, 100 parts.
That’s the reason KISSlicer was used for a long time. It now is almost forgotten (and sadly closed source)
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