3D printer's printing behavior - a premier

Hi,

I am posting here because i do not know where this post would go under, thus it seems that general is best.

I wanted to know if there is any documentation that describes what the general rule is when generating Gcode from STL file; How is the 3D printer to behave while printing.

I know for one that objects are printed layer by layer (so the bottom layer is not visited after it is completed). I am also pretty sure that the outer parameters are printed before the 'filling' is printed.

Is there any documentation that describes the general rules of how the motion of the Extruder is set? I need this for research and any guidance would be appreciated.

Thank you

Well, you're correct about bottom up. However, that's about the only hard rule.

Everything else is customizable in your slicing software, which is responsible for turning your STL into Gcode.

By default, most slicers do print the permiters, then the infill. But like I say, you can change that up. This link may help you:

http://manual.slic3r.org/simple-mode...print-settings