Slice Thickness: The thickness of the individual layers of metal powder.
Angle Tolerance: The tolerance up to which support vectors are assigned to the 1st group during Sort Strategy Direction Clustering. With a value of 3, all support vectors with an alignment of ±3° to the main alignment are considered to be support vectors in the main alignment.
Orthogonal Direction Weight: The tolerance up to which support vectors are assigned to the 2nd group during Sort Strategy Direction Clustering. With a value of 3, all support vectors with an alignment of ±3° to the orthogonal alignment are considered to be support vectors in the 2nd group.
Remove
Overlapping Contours: If enabled, double or overlapping support vectors are
removed if the values defined under Overlap Angle Tolerance and Overlap Tolerance are exceeded
at the same time.
Overlap Angle Tolerance: The angle between two support vectors from which the criterion for the removal of one of the two support vectors is considered to be fulfilled. Support vectors with a larger angle to each other than defined are used for the removal. If the value under Overlap Tolerance is also exceeded, one of the two support vectors is removed.
Overlap Tolerance: The distance between two support vectors from which the criterion for the removal of one of the two support vectors is considered to be fulfilled. Support vectors with a greater distance to each other than defined are used for the removal. If the value under Overlap Angle Tolerance is also exceeded, one of the two support vectors is removed.
Sort Strategy: The exposure methods for support vectors, i.e. the processing sequence of the vectors.
DIRECTION_CLUSTERING: With this method, a main alignment is determined for the support vectors. This calculation is necessary because the structure of block supports and adaptive cell supports means that they have two alignments that run orthogonally to each other. The two directions are determined using the values under Angle Tolerance and Orthogonal Direction Weight. The support vectors are split into three groups as the result of the defined values and these groups are exposed successively:
All support vectors in the determined main alignment. Exposure of support vectors from right to left
All support vectors orthogonal to the determined main alignment. Exposure of support vectors from top to bottom
All other support vectors, for example, support vectors in the contour. Exposure of support vectors according to the Nearest Neighbour method.
NEAREST_NEIGHBOR: With this method, support vectors are exposed in such a way that the nearest support vector to the support vector currently to be exposed is always the next to be exposed. The values defined under Angle Tolerance and Orthogonal Direction Weight have no influence on the exposure
NEAREST_NEIGHBOR_DIRECTION_WEIGHT:
