Who integrated support material directly into its objects?

[mnis 11]

Hi guys

For a few months I create 3D objects for 3D printing. With increasing progress my personal requirements are also rising, and I try already during the constructing to make intensive use of the opportunities for quality improvement. In short I optimize my objects for a complication-free as possible printing experience. I print mainly with cheap as possible PLA, and try everything on it to optimize towards. Cheap materials are very suitable for experiments and visualization of optimization experiments, I think so.

Supporting material is essential in many cases, and often automatically generated support material does not fulfill its purpose.

Good experience I have had with the three variants support material:

1) Flat rectangles, typically with first-layer thickness, to small independent object areas.

2) Square or rectangular single pillars, with a minimum wall thickness (near nozzle diameter) for higher areas.

3) Narrow rectangular walls, width and distance near nozzle diameter. From top to overhang 0.1mm gap.

In addition to these three variants I avoid pointed corner areas, thus there is almost everywhere round corners to see ... :lol:

I would be very happy if someone contributes his experiences on this Topic.

Markus

 

[Blizz 53]

IRobertI did it for his feeder, if he misses the topic (which I doubt ), you could ask him directly

 

[IRobertI 489]

Not much to say really but since I was called upon... I do try to incorporate manual support if I can't avoid needing supports and if I'm not feeling lazy. Usually manual supports use a lot less material and can be better sometimes as well as easier to remove. I usually try to take advantage of bridging doing the heavy lifting and just provide a thin wall for the bridge. On the feeder I used 0.5mm walls and 0.15mm air gaps to the actual model, that seemed to work ok for me.