Brim only on the outside of object?

[netsrac 4]

Hi,

I love the brim as Platform Adhesion help. However, it's hard to really clean the inside of an object with a small knife.

So is there a way to do the Brim only on the outside of an object? That would really be cool!

Thanks, Netsrac

 

[gr5 2,173]

I would also love this feature.

 

[Blizz 53]

+1 from moi

 

[Daid 306]

Trick you could do, is disable the brim. Set the skirt lines to 30. And set the skirt distance to 0.01

This will generate an outside only brim (as you trick the skirt code, which is only on the outside, to acts as a brim)

 

[netsrac 4]

Cool...thanks for this tip. However, it would be great to have this as an extended setting in any future versions of Cura.

 

[Blizz 53]

Can somebody start on a "tips and tricks" wiki already?

 

[tmrevlje 1]

Cool thanks Daid!

If there isn't a "Tips&Tricks" section on the forum yet, that'd be a great idea, you know those every day things that you might think off and save someone else a shitload of time... would be cool.

 

[deepshots 2]

I actually do my brims/skirts straight in CAD before exporting. That way I can get exactly the type I want.

 

[tmrevlje 1]

Cool Deep, but isn't it then harder to disconnect the support from the object or do you make sure that the connecting points are thiner then the actual pillars (support)?

 

[deepshots 2]

Yes... that is why I'm only talking about brims and skirts.. not actual support material for overhangs. That's a completely different story of course.

Especially when I print something tall and kinda thin I usually include nice wide base to the export as I have had cases where the printer head has knocked over the prints... typically in the later layers.

 

[tmrevlje 1]

Yes typically

 

[R4C3R 0]

Trick you could do, is disable the brim. Set the skirt lines to 30. And set the skirt distance to 0.01

This will generate an outside only brim (as you trick the skirt code, which is only on the outside, to acts as a brim)

 

I can confirm that these settings work, although 20 skirt lines might be more than enough

[Adam324 13]

Thank

On 7/22/2014 at 7:33 AM, Daid said:

Trick you could do, is disable the brim. Set the skirt lines to 30. And set the skirt distance to 0.01

This will generate an outside only brim (as you trick the skirt code, which is only on the outside, to acts as a brim)

 

Thank you for this.  There is a feature to only print the brim on the outside now in Cura (using 3.6.1) but with my model, It still puts a brim on the inside (It has to do with the design of my model I think).  The solution was to do the skirt at 0.01mm away.  I plan to experiment with that number and see if I can make it just far enough away that it combines with the object but there is a thinner section up close to the object so that the skirt (modified to be a brim) is easier to remove.

Edited August 2, 2020 by Adam324