Let's talk about Slic3r support material (Page 2 of 2)

Like myself, you wait until Alex releases 0.9.11, which by the looks of it is way off, or beg for a compiled version by someone around here that knows how to do that .  Both 2n2r5 and Adrian hinted that they might be able to do that in a different post I have on this subject...

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/4149/slic3r-v0911/

..but for now we wait.

It was suggested that I downgrade to a previous version, and I did, down to 0.9.9, but it doesn't work there either.

When Alex closed the open issue on Github, he suggested the fix was around the corner.  That was a month ago.  At that time the Milestone showed 75% completed.  AS of now that number stands at 76%.  At this rate, we're looking at about 2 years for the release...

Add me to the list of frustrated Slic3r Support users. I just can't seem to get it right. I have read, in issue one of the reprap magazine, that Slic3r does indeed stink at generating support and needs improvement. The author of the article went on to compare Cura when using support and reported that Cura handles support generation much better. The thought of learning another slicer and getting good with it does not excite me, though.

As far as manual support generation through CAD goes, that's an interesting idea as I use SW at work and am very proficient with it. I have used it already multiple times to rework STL files so that they are easier to print.

You can open STL files in SW and change the import settings such that SW generates "dumb" geometry when importing it. You can then use them noramlly and modify to your heart's content.