With complex designs there is sometimes a need for supporting your print.
After the print process there is a lot of leftover structure that need to be removed. By hand!
Sometimes this is a daunting task. (something you don’t need with a advanced process like 3d printing)
Wouldn’t it be better to print a water desolvable resin to build a lattice support structure BEFORE you print a complex part from any other material? (a special lattice support head perhaps?)
After the whole printing process is done you only need to submerge the part in water and wash the leftover lattice structure away…
I dont know if something like dissolving support structures ever been implemented into a 3d printer. But this idea just popped in my head.
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