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@Slashee_the_Cow Setting the Z-gap to zero would make the situation just worse. Increasing the density of the roof's surface won't solve the issue. The issue comes from the time needed to cool down a thicker line. About the modifiers, I'd love to use them, but cura's ones are really a mess, where you need to split the mesh into nested meshes. Cura should take inspiration from Ideamaker regarding to modifiers and textures. I still thinkm the option would be usefull. I'll try to reach them via form.

Hello Everybody. I'd been playing with supports settings in Cura for a few days. I mainly use a 1mm nozzle for my prints. I never managed in having supports removed properly when using a big nozzle. The issue comes from the fact that a 1mm line is hard to cool down quickly in order to not let it collapse over the supports' roof. The first unsupported layer ends up in being melted with the support's roof. Z-gaps adjustmens do not solve the problem. Thinner lines let the filament to not collapse more easily and therefore the supports to be removed properly. I thought about a workaround for this: let people set different bottom skin line widths per different skin layer. For example: By using a 1mm nozzle, the first of the bottom skin layers line width could be set to 0.5, while from the second one it could be set to 1mm in order to save printing time. This should let you have a higher supports removal accuracy since the very first supported layer would be a 0.5 light one, not a 1mm heavy one. This should help in making 1mm nozzle prints more funtional regarding supports removal. It would influence the quality of bridges and unsupported areas like vertical holes' top parts too. The line width change could be also be automatically applied selectively to supported areas only. This feature would help a lot in having neater supported areas. This would work for 0.4 nozzels too, where, for example the supported area skin would be printed at 0.3 line widht instead of 0.4. this would automatically increase the print quality. At the moment Cura let you only change global skin parameters, except for the very first layer that can be tuned separately.

Got it, it is a solution I was thinking about too, but it will change and partially mess up the mesh anyway. I've got no experience with other slicers, but I wonder if this is the same method that Prusa or Ideamaker's softwares use to locally apply textures or generate fuzzy skin. Don't think so. If there is no other way to do it in Cura, I think Cura should create it.

Hi everybody. New here. A technical question: I'm working on a model (single piece) that requires external fuzzy skin on its middle part only, the top and the bottom is no fuzzy. Well, i do this by adding a support blocker cube, resizing it, and making it pass through the entire model. Then I apply the per model settings to it. The only way to make it work is to set the cube to "cut mesh", but by doing so the model is sliced into 3 different volumes "joined" together (no fuzzy-fuzzy-no fuzzy). So I've got 3 bottom skin layers, infill, 3 top skin, 3 bottom skin, infill, 3 top skin and so on. These "new volumes" are not merged into one single volume. This makes the print a mess and increases both printing time and amount of printed material a lot. 20 hours for the "volumes" vs 15 for the single original one. So, the question is: how to apply per model settings without cutting the model? Sorry for the long post. Thanks.