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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Rutty to c/[email protected]

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I have been printing a number of sculptures this week and while mostly good, I am seeing repeated issues associated with settings.

First, supports will wrap around a hand or foot and can be difficult or impossible to remove without damaging the print.

Second, a support will fall over resulting in spaghetti infill/gaps for a portion of the print.

I am printing with both a Bambu Lab P1P and X1C using Overture Rock White PETG.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supports are tricky. Use support painting to pick areas that are less visible when possible for support scars. You Can you use prusa slicer with bambu I believe. I find organic supports scar less is many instances. Most straightforward answer is also to try increasing support spacing.

[–] 0xd34d 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bambu studio doesn't have support painting? I'm using it in Orca slicer but maybe that was brought in from prusa slicer.

[–] Rutty 1 points 1 year ago

I use Orcaslicer, it’s manual painting is not intuitive to me. That said, I haven’t much researched how to do manual painting of supports either.

I think it’s the next logical step in my building domain expertise in 3D printing though. It just seems like a leap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Your prints look amazing honestly. Dont expect injection moulding quality. It can be improved a bit with bigger gap or different supports, but models like this are quite difficult to print on FDM. Postprocessing is kinda normal