Solarium Part, test your support settings.
9
Likes
807
Downloads
807
Views
Published on August 21, 2010
Description
This is a replacement part that was broken on a solar room cover. I posted it to show how my support settings are working. Since most of the object is actually flat in the air, almost the entire object is on support. IT WORKS GREAT. When you are finished printing, the raft support just pulls right off with an accordian effect.
Since I had not seen this, I posted the gcode and my raft/support settings. This was printed without a raft.
Since I had not seen this, I posted the gcode and my raft/support settings. This was printed without a raft.
Instructions
you may want to scale this down, as it uses a lot of plastic. But if you want to try my support settings, you will see its great.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
jstiltner
on
August 21, 2010
said:
Did you draw support into the stl part? or did you just use the support plugin for skieneforge. Further what were your settings for it?
neoteric
on
August 22, 2010
said:
I screwed around with support settings in skeinforge. (under Raft). The settings are in the CSV file below.
basically, base layers 0, infill density .4, interface layers 0, support material everywhere turned off (false), degrees 60. But see CSV. You then need to select "print raft" if you are running skeinforge from within replicator. The trick is to get the support material printing in only one direction, re x or y, but not both, and to have enough space between them but not too much, in my opinion.
License
More from neoteric
Hi, I'm new to the makerbot, and in need of some education concerning skeinforge,
and how to actually go about inputting and usinjg these settings.
I have been trying to understand how the support works but can not find any actual
instructions for beginners.
Please help.
Raft has two layers, the first horizontal layer print, the second vertical layer. The second layer is what gets extended upward for support when support is turned on.
so the idea is to have enough spacing between the rows that print on that second layer that it is easy to pull the support off. Look at my settings in my comments below and in my sample skeinforge setting attached. Let me know if that helps or if you need more info.