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Suggestion: Tree Supports need Smoothing!


AbeFM

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Posted · Suggestion: Tree Supports need Smoothing!

Doing my first Tree supports, and mostly really liking it.

 

I've noticed the outer edges have very fine detail, often under a line width, and the printer following these makes all sorts of racket. I have some aggressive accel settings, etc, but the rest of the print doesn't do this (small zig-zags being the exception).

 

As you can see, there is a lot of detail in there which is so small that it hardly makes a difference that it is there. The segment in question (9 lines) could easily be reduced to 2 without changing anything about the support it applies. The uppermost layer/layers may well have stringent accuracy requirements, but the bulk of the tower could be smoothed to within 1-2 line widths without hurting the print. This would reduce file size, wear on printer, print times, etc etc.

 

That's my take.

TreeSupportSmoothing.png

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