Urgent question to cura printing with support

[midgard 0]

Hello everyone,

First, if the posting is double-posted, please delete one. I tried to post this, but then the connection crashes, if not, please post:

yesterday i tried Cura, because i can get my Ultimaker 2 tomorrow. After i gambling a little, i try to make gcode from my Model.

Because i have many overhangs on the model (Scans of self designed Boardgame-Miniatures) i use "Support type everywhere." After that, i take a look at the layer view.

And i am shocked. Even half of the required supports were shown. I try another Model --> the same. Almost all of my models haven't got the neccessary supports.

The Ultimaker 2 is my 2nd 3D-Printer. I have plenty excerience with a replicator2. Those supports are already there.

Now my question is:

Is the "Not showing" of the supports a bug in the view, or, an that'll be REALLY worse, is the view the actual support structure and all of my prints will be rubbish... .

In that case, i'll send back the printer, because it's useless for me (i don't want to set every support manually, these Miniatures are to complex for this).

Regards

 

Midgard

 

[IRobertI 520]

Showing a picture of what's happening would be helpful in figuring out what's going on.

 

[midgard 0]

This picture for example, It's a thingiverse miniature. You can see the "problematic parts" in the red circles.

Is that a view problem, or are there really no supports.

Regards

Midgard

 

[midgard 0]

Hello again,

first @Osgar: Thanks, that could solve the problem. Setting the angle back to 10 makes support on the parts.

But... right now i see this in the view:

It seems, that the last couple of layers are set out of the build room and misplaced from the other layers.

Whats this?

Regards

Midgard

 

[midgard 0]

Yes, sure.

I take this one from thingiverse:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:313371

Then i repaired it via Netfabb (it has several holes an degenerated triangles) but now, it should be fine. I have those behaviour also at other models.

BTW: I'm using the 14.03 of Cura.

 

[Daid 306]

The "layers outside of view" is a very old long standing bug. It might have been fixed in the latest RC:

http://software.ultimaker.com/Cura_closed_beta/

(It has to do with an G92 in the start code)

 

[nallath 1,120]

It's the basis to any bugreport; Ensure that you are using the latest version and (if there are any) you've tried the release candidates. If you are feeling especially helpfull & adventurous; also test it on nightly builds.

 

[midgard 0]

Well, first thanks for the lots of help.

I'll try the RCs now. Using the nightlies, I'm to excited for gettting and using the new ultimaker.

(I'm a software developer indeed on the java side of life, but running a nightly build is always a task of developing for me, so if i find something and have access to the code, i want to fix it) .

Perhaps later, when i'm getting more familiar with the printer, Phyton an C.

But now: getting the printer and making first steps with the ultimaker 2.

Regards

Midgard

 

[nallath 1,120]

Python is pretty darn easy to get started with. The C side of things is a bit more tricky, but most of the really hard stuf is on the math, not so much in the actual implementation of things.

More developers for Cura is always good