Printing Cylindrical Object Laying Down
I want to print a phone/kindle stand I've designed but I have one issue with it.
The assembly contains a base with three notches for regulating the angle at which the unit will be placed. The second part is the holder itself (simple L profile) and the third is a pivot which will be used to adjust the angle and to lock the holder in position. The pivot looks like capital letter H, but it's cylindrical so whatever orientation I use will place the cylinder laying down on the bed.
Now the issue is will the part become flat on the part that touches the bed? I could make the pivot profile be a square instead of a circle, but I don't like that design very much (plus, there's a 4th - "transportation" position for the holder which flattens it out and that was also designed for a circual profile of the pivot).
If possible, I would want to print all 3 parts together, but I would only need to lift the pivot up so I don't flatten the profile. So if I use raft on the pivot, Slic3r will make the raft on 2 other parts which don't need it.
The best idea I've thought off was to only manually place supports on the pivot, maybe just a couple of mm in meshmixer, but I don't know if this would be stable enough as meshmixer only provides those stringy supports as far as I have figured out?
Or is there a simpler way to print a cylindrical shape laying down on the bed without flattening it where it lays on the bed?