Well, breakaway-support is "in delivery" and I'll try it.
Reg. the idea you described:
so you include the faux support in your design, right?
Reg. why ABS:
The part in question is a handle for a lid of a pan.
So it will be exposed to higher temps and the dishwasher as well.
Also I like the ease of polishing ABS with acetone;-)
There are quite some areas where this part needs support.
Especially the underside (which has a concavity) is hard to free from non-solvable support.
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I played with it. I got it to work a bit, but not really. And, I do not like ABS at all, so that was a short lived excursion. Still have three rolls of the stuff that I will probably never use.
But, the biggest issue with ABS is the tendency to warp and thus pull away from the PVA relentlessly. I got it to work a bit by using what I would call anchor points. Tiny bits of faux support that kept a long part of the model from being too long and warping much.
Sorta like this:
__________________________________________________________ <-----long part
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ <----Anchors of ABS faux support to hold ABS part down.
Why not just try their new breakaway material for a part like that? It is rated for ABS and a few others.
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