Need your opinion : Support or glue
Hello,
when you have no choice what is the better solution :
print with supports or cut the parts and glue them ?
Thanks for your opinion.
Dje
RE: Need your opinion : Support or glue
Have you tried using support enforcers yet, this way you can control exactly where the supports sit, also try changing the support angle to run at 45 Deg to the printed part layers, you will be left with a much cleaner surface. The default support settings for me were not ideal, so I started playing around with them, using the layer preview extensively and seeing exactly where contact would be made, this allowed me to tune each enforcer to just support where I needed, not everywhere like slicer does.
Well worth trying before giving up on supports.
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
RE: Need your opinion : Support or glue
Thank you for your reply.
Yes I tried 45 ° in the slicer. For this specific case, this is not the best way.
I also try with support enforcers , but I don't know what they always start from the bed.
Does the support always have to come from the bed and not from another part's plane?
Dje
RE: Need your opinion : Support or glue
If you have an opening half way up that you want supported - just plunk a support enforcer over it.
Can be from the bed - does not have to be.
And in the support box choose "support enforcers only".
RE: Need your opinion : Support or glue
If there is no choice - use glue, but if the supports are small and easily removed then use supports.
It is easy to split a STL object with the new Prusa slicer.
RE: Need your opinion : Support or glue
If there is no choice - use glue, but if the supports are small and easily removed then use supports.
It is easy to split a STL object with the new Prusa slicer.
I've found that if before splitting if you put mesh modifiers inside the model the size and shape of dowels/pegs/popsicle sticks/etc. to clear out the infill and provide perimeters across where you plan on splitting, the modifiers will be copied to both sides of the split. This allows you to use dowels/pegs/popsicle sticks/etc. to index the parts to help line them up when you glue the printed parts together.
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