1 Topic by machinistjoe

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Topic: Support settings for easy removal

Greetings all,

I have been doing a lot of printing on my SD2 lately for my job(yay!). I was wondering of there were any firmware or setting tweaks in Slic3r to make support material easy to remove. Right now, I have the support set to 1.mm spacing, and offset 45 degrees in relation to the part. It's not too bad to remove now, but I am always looking for a way to make my life a little easier. : )

Thanks!

2 Reply by Gordym

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Re: Support settings for easy removal

Support in slic3r has not been my friend. Other slicers like Kisslicer and skein forge are much better handling support in my opinion.

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3 Reply by machinistjoe

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Re: Support settings for easy removal

I was going to try kissslicer, but since I have been "working" from my machine, I don't have time to tweak things right now. I will be giving it a try when things calm down next week though.

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Re: Support settings for easy removal

Search Youtube.  A poster here  (Ian Johnson) has some suggestions on the settings for the software.

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