I wanted to follow up and thank you all for the feedback. We just released meshmixer 2.1, and there are a lot of improvements to the support workflow. In particular:
1) you can leave the tool, save/load a .mix file, and come back and continue manually editing the support
2) you can merge the multiple-overlapping-shells support structure into non-self-intersecting solids
3) your parameter settings are saved when you exit the tool
4) the sliders do a bit of rounding to a reasonable number of digits of precision
5) you can draw a 100% manual support structure, no need to auto-generate at all if you don't want to
6) you can draw posts that connect to the ground, which was not possible before
We did also tweak the auto-generation algorithm quite a bit...it usually makes better structures now, but still does get stuck sometimes, so manual cleanup/tweaking will still be necessary.
More to come!
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Support made with B9creator app. (just ignore the size warning when using big models)
B9creator gives multiple adjustable features for every single collumn.
Its very convenient to add an remove collums. you can change thicknesses and orientation after placement.
only disadvantage i see is:
There are no branching-style columns possible. Just single ones.
Here you go Lennart:
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