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Hey All,

I’m having some trouble on particular models getting support to actually support. The default settings have a ‘Upper vertical separation layers’ of 1, from what I can tell and have seen, this guarantees that the layer printed atop it will collapse by one Z-layer height. Changing this to 0 seems to work out alright but can make clean-up difficult but really in most cases not bad at all. The problem I’m having now is when the first layer being supported is very small, in this case, a finger tip. The first layer falls in between the support layer towers unless the support infill is very high, with a high support infill AND 0 layer separation, support removal is impossible. any tips are greatly appreciated.

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Experiment with the infill patter angle, manually edit the support structure, play around with vertical separation (I’d say 0,2mm or so) and consider using a smaller nozzle.

Play around with the settings instead of going from standard to extreme values.

To speed up the code generation you can also limit the printing to the layers that matter for you (see last tab of advances settings).

You could send me the file and key settings (layer height, nozzle diameter) if you want me to take a look at this.

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How can I privately send you the .STL for some more personal help ?

I’m on a 0,4mm nozzle, customer requested layer height is 0,3mm.