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Topic: Settings to make support material easier to remove?

Greetings,
Sometimes my support material comes off easily and cleanly, but 8 out of 10 times its so hard to remove that I end up sanding it off with a dremel... I was wondering if this is normal and everyone has hard time removing support material or just my possible settings needs tweaking?

http://i.imgur.com/GtPGtnX.png

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Re: Settings to make support material easier to remove?

Try going to the extrusion width settings screen and decrease the support extrusion width to a value close to half your nozzle diameter.

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Re: Settings to make support material easier to remove?

this one:

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Re: Settings to make support material easier to remove?

wardjr wrote:

Try going to the extrusion width settings screen and decrease the support extrusion width to a value close to half your nozzle diameter.

My support extrusion width is set at .25 with a .4 nozzel. But ill set it to .2 and see what happens