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Bram
 Bram
(@bram)
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Feature request: thick brims for support material

With a flexible magnetic build plate everything comes off easily with one exception: The brims on the bottoms of support material. It makes sense that supports needs brims because it has so little contact area, but it's sometimes a fair amount of effort and work with my fingernails to get everything off. It would be worth a few more minutes of build time and a bit more support material for those brims to be made several layers thick so that they didn't bend with the plate and could come off just as easily as everything else.

Posted : 13/02/2023 5:13 am
R&D
 R&D
(@rd)
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RE: Feature request: thick brims for support material

@bram

 

Some people print little plastic scrapers for lifting those tiny edges up, they are all over Thingiverse, so you wouldn't have to design one. Just print it, without Brims of course. 😉  Also they sell some really high quality ones at the hardware store for $1.35 think of it as a an artificial fingernail. 😎

Posted : 13/02/2023 3:37 pm
René
(@rene-3)
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RE: Feature request: thick brims for support material

As R&D pointed out, I find this one very useful.

https://www.printables.com/model/277302-thin-layers-scraper-tinyergonomic

Posted : 13/02/2023 5:48 pm
Bram
 Bram
(@bram)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Feature request: thick brims for support material

Thanks! I'll try that out and report back with whether I still find the scraping process overly annoying. Of course it would be possible to have thick brims and use a scraper for maximal convenience.

Posted : 13/02/2023 7:11 pm
Bram
 Bram
(@bram)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Feature request: thick brims for support material

Sadly the scraper was a fail. My bed adhesion is now good enough even with PLA it's actually difficult to peel off. Manually placing little plates under the supports does work.

Posted : 15/02/2023 9:35 pm
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