Gradient Infill

Basics

• Load is not distributed evenly
• the edges have either high Compressive Stress , or high Tensile Stress, this diminishes with a gradient to the center which has none
• Infill in 3D Printing is usually constant, which does not match this gradient
• Gradient Infill attempts to fix this
• Essentially the amount of infill (usually by extrusion "thickness") decreases as it is closer to the "Center"
• This decreases waste and should work better

Existing Code/Slicers Etc

Work by the Youtube Channel "CNC Kitchen"

• The Introductory Video
• Gradient Infill on Github
• Sample files on Thingiverse
• Detailed instructions
• CURA gradual infill
• Kisslicer dynamic infill