The vocabulary first โ the app's own terms, then your first piece.
| Bead | The line of plastic the pen lays down โ its width, about 0.7 mm for a hot pen, sets the lanes on every stencil. |
| Lane | The band one bead wide just inside each colour's edge โ the pen tip runs down its middle, so neighbouring colours butt together. |
| Infill | Support lines inside a colour: triangle truss, honeycomb or crosshatch โ they stiffen the piece and use less plastic than filling it solid. |
| Tack-down dot | A dot where infill lines meet, to hold the piece flat on the mat as it cools. |
| Anchor point | A small blob at the start of a line, so the line sticks where it begins. |
| Panel ยท Seam | One flat face of a low-poly model, traced on its own; where two panels meet, both carry the same number along the edge and the pen welds them there. |
Draw the outline in one pass (lane), fill it with infill, pin it with tack-down dots at the joins, and lift it once it's cool. Panels weld at the seams โ the app numbers the edges so you can check them before welding.
The app counts how many strand lengths to cut per colour, so the pen feeds without mid-line splices โ the bench prints that page, the app counts it live.