6 hours ago, Gineisvasconcelos said:I want to add a drawning I have on CAD as a support
Just remember that it's hard to get the correct heightmap from an image (and you can't import SVGs as anything other than a toolpath AFAIK so the inherent inaccuracy from a raster image blows any chance of my brain letting me do that). You probably knew that already, but you'd be surprised how often the workflow that's obvious to someone is so obviously wrong to almost anyone else who sees it. So just make sure you extrude your shape to a 3D mesh to import it into Cura.
It's also often possible to get pretty good results by just using the regular supports in Cura and adding support blockers where you know support isn't needed.
Probably not applicable since you said you have a custom drawing but you can make supports without a plugin just by creating a support blocker and then using the per model settings as @GregValiant described to set it to print as support:
Also I love just bringing up a screenshot of when I printed literally the biggest disc I could fit in my printer's build volume at any vaguely relevant opportunity.
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The support model is like any other model but requires an extra step.
Bring the support model into Cura and position it, then select the "Per Model" settings button on the left side of the screen and set the particular model to "Print as Support".
The 5axes "Support Shapes" and calibration shapes were removed by the author due to an alleged bug.
The bug with the plugins is that the shapes could lose position if the file was saved as a project and then re-opened. I don't care as they are too useful to do without.
Here is a fender model with a custom model that I designed to support it and it is set to "Print as support".
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