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mbiasotti
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Is there a way to specify a support's thickness?

What is the default width of the support wall when using rectangular or honeycomb supports and is there a way to make it thinner or thicker?  Does changing from a .4mm to .25mm nozzle give me a thinner wall support?

 

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Publié : 28/06/2023 7:24 pm
Neophyl
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RE: Is there a way to specify a support's thickness?

Support width is defined like any other extrusion width, in Print Settings>Advanced.  You can define the extrusion widths for most extrusion feature types there.  For a 0.4mm nozzle the prusa defaults for their printers is usually 0.35mm.  This is thinner than normal extrusion width of 0.45 for a 0.4mm nozzle.  Deliberately as it makes support easier to break apart and incidentally use less material.  This width is applied to ALL support types - grid, snug and organic (if using 2.6 and you have organic).

Publié : 28/06/2023 7:52 pm
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mbiasotti
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RE: Is there a way to specify a support's thickness?

Thanks for the explanation. So if I use a .25mm nozzle I can get thinnner supports...

Publié : 29/06/2023 12:57 am
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