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Marc Liyanage
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PLA as Support Material for PETG Sticks Together

I read reports of people successfully combining PLA and PETG where one is the support material and it's supposed to be easy to remove because they don't stick together. I read one can set the support distance to zero (soluble) for a very nice bottom surface finish.

I print all my models as PETG so I tried using PLA as support material, but in the resulting print the supports are not easy to remove at all. They stick together firmly and it is impossible to cleanly remove the PLA.

Is somebody successfully doing this with the XL, and if so what are your settings?

Posted : 27/06/2024 3:45 am
Payette
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RE: PLA as Support Material for PETG Sticks Together

I would like to know the settings to use PLA as suupport with PETG models as well

Posted : 04/08/2024 12:01 pm
Marc Liyanage
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Topic starter answered:
RE: PLA as Support Material for PETG Sticks Together

As you can see I didn't get much traction on this post here, but I got a lot of good feedback on the Prusa subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1dz6k5a/pla_as_support_material_for_petg_on_prusa_xl/

Posted : 05/08/2024 12:07 am
Trevers
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RE: PLA as Support Material for PETG Sticks Together

I used this with great success

https://help.prusa3d.com/article/combining-materials-xl_498103#pla-petg

 

Posted : 05/08/2024 1:35 pm
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