alexrj/Slic3r — Issue #167: "Solid infill"-speed apllied inconsistently
Author: factoryhatchling
Created: 2012-01-15 22:11:58+00:00
State: open

It seems as if when printing multiple solid layers only the very top and bottom ones are printed with the speed set in "solid infill". Probably this is not optimal behavior.

Generally one would want to print the infill as fast as possible but the max speed for infill is probably higher than the max speed for solid layers. So using the max speed for infill causes the inner solid layers to be of poor quality, which can also decrease the quality of the top layer.
For example the solid layers could turn out to be bumpy or too sparse and thus the top surface wouldn't be perfectly flat.

Instead of just setting the speed of all solid layers to be the same, decoupling the speed options for the topmost and the other solid layers would also make sense.
This would give us 3 speed options for solid layers: bottom layer speed, internal solid layer speed and top layer speed.
Maybe "bottom layer speed ratio" could be replaced with an absolute speed in mm/s then and accopanied by the aforementioned "top layer speed".