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Excessive support when I turn on dual extruder setting
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· Excessive support when I turn on dual extruder setting
I assume that you're printing with PVA, which is a tricky material to print right. If the material stays in the nozzle for too long, it can degrade and cause the nozzle to clog. Because of that, we set the "support horizontal expansion" to 3 mm. This ensures that a minimum amount of support is printed every layer, which should prevent this from happening.
It also ensures that the support that it prints doesn't fall over (as is another tendency of PVA).
You can decrease that number for certain models, but it does come at the increased risk of clogged nozzles.
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I assume that you're printing with PVA, which is a tricky material to print right. If the material stays in the nozzle for too long, it can degrade and cause the nozzle to clog. Because of that, we set the "support horizontal expansion" to 3 mm. This ensures that a minimum amount of support is printed every layer, which should prevent this from happening.
It also ensures that the support that it prints doesn't fall over (as is another tendency of PVA).
You can decrease that number for certain models, but it does come at the increased risk of clogged nozzles.
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