Rough print surface above support area
Hi everyone,
I have been successfully printing quite a few models now and am now trying my first one that requires quite a bit of support area. I have tried with a few different setups on Slic3r but it always seems to print a rough surface where ever there is a support structure underneath.
The support structure is coming away from the part with ease so I don't think it is the support lines being left behind when I pull the support away.
The attached picture shows the part, upside down so the rough area can be seen, and the piece of support that was pulled off.
Any ideas on how I can set up Slic3r to give me a better finish on my part on the area where the support is?
Cheers
Re: Rough print surface above support area
Any ideas on how I can set up Slic3r to give me a better finish on my part on the area where the support is?
Try switching to Cura. Slic3r does a very poor job with support, and they don't seem to be interested in fixing it. Cura does much better.
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that Slic3r treats support material as something to hold up a bridge, rather than as a raft on which to draw the bottom layer of the supported part of the model.
And while Slic3r generally does a good job on bridges, a bridge is never going to come out as nicely as a properly supported bottom layer on a raft.
Re: Rough print surface above support area
I has going to ask the same question. I have been altering the print so that the support section was in a less noticable place and could be cleaned up.
One thing i have started to look at was different slicer programs. But for now I'm just working through what is there to get a start on understanding the print process.
Re: Rough print surface above support area
One thing i have started to look at was different slicer programs. But for now I'm just working through what is there to get a start on understanding the print process.
Switching to a new slicer seems daunting when you first start, but it's easier than it looks and generally worth the effort to become conversant in a couple different tools. No one slicer does everything well, and they all seem to have their own unique ways of doing things. So getting to know multiple slicers is a good way to get a deeper understanding of what's really going on.
Re: Rough print surface above support area
I'm still learning slic3r, but support options seem to...suck...compared to s3d. Is there a "dense support" option? 2-3 layers of dense support would fix it right up.
Re: Rough print surface above support area
I'm having this exact same issue.
Print on the left, supports on the right.
Problem is, switching to Cura is not simple. The MK2 settings don't work for the MK3. Does anyone have a Cura profile that they'd like to share? One that works well for you?
Re: Rough print surface above support area
I'm having this exact same issue.
supports.jpg
Print on the left, supports on the right.
Problem is, switching to Cura is not simple. The MK2 settings don't work for the MK3. Does anyone have a Cura profile that they'd like to share? One that works well for you?
BTW, I'm just curious, why did you print this particular model on the side without any supports?
The good idea is thinking about the printability during the designing a model, if you can. MMU with soluble supports helps a little bit, but surface on the supports does not so good anyway.
Re: Rough print surface above support area
I'm having this exact same issue.
supports.jpg
Print on the left, supports on the right.
Problem is, switching to Cura is not simple. The MK2 settings don't work for the MK3. Does anyone have a Cura profile that they'd like to share? One that works well for you?
BTW, I'm just curious, why did you print this particular model on the side without any supports?
The good idea is thinking about the printability during the designing a model, if you can. MMU with soluble supports helps a little bit, but surface on the supports does not so good anyway.
What do you mean? The pic is not how I printed it, that was just to show the problem I'm having.
