So I've asked around a few times and gotten some helpful responses, but I've been trying to figure out the most effective method for placing supports on models with complicated topology. I wanted to share a method that I'm trying that I hope will prove effective and useful for others. If this way is too cumbersome, clunky, inefficient, or if this is already how most folks are doing it, my bad! I'm a lazy boy and used to rely on auto supports for most, then manual supports for whatever it missed, but even that wasn't usually accurate, so I may have missed the train when folks were handing out support instructions.
My issue is that some models have too many densely packed islands, and my instinct is to put supports on them all. I struggle with understanding just how small these models will print while I'm zoomed in to each layer trying to fit what is visually a large support on a large island, only to have it print and remind me that what I was trying to support was no wider than a needle or something. Now every single thing is supported, but all the support columns are so tightly fused that it forms one big column that's a pain to remove cleanly.
What I'm trying now is taking the model, angling it the way I want, slicing it with no supports, then using the sliced layer as a reference point when I open the same model up in another Chitubox window to place the supports. The sliced model shows me what the Photon will actually print (pictured on the right) vs. what my mind brain tells me I should support (pictured left).
Is this sound? Did I just make a post about something super obvious or already widely practiced?
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Luke Mason
2019-08-18 14:04:19
Chad Elstad
2019-08-19 00:26:05
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2019-08-19 00:58:26
