Bambu Studio - Bridge not contacting wall

The bridge (Blue) is not making contact with the internal wall (Yellow). I have the overlap of infill/wall at 50%. You can see the Bridge is in the air at some spots.

Supports aren’t gonna help if one end of the bridge doesn’t make contact with the wall. I’ve tried changing a number of settings WRT to bridge, walls, overlap, resolution but nothing seems to fix this. Only thing that works is reduce the number of walls. I currently have it set to 10, but if I make it 7 then the bridge will overlap the layer below.

This image shows the layer below (black) and Bridge (blue) as the bridge is being created.

This image shows the completed layer.

Welcome to the forum.

It looks like you have a wall count setting of 10? Is there a reason you are have so many? Super high wall counts like this can cause some really weird slicing. Have you tried it with a normal wall count of 3-5?

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It’s 10 for structural reasons as this is a functional part. Is it possible to reduce the wall count for that one layer containing the bridge?

There are ways to do with modifiers but honestly you are probably better off with a much lower wall count and a high percentage of infill.

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Below is a slice using 8 walls, the bridge now follows the wall contour and flows into wall lines as the overlap setting is set to 50%.

It looks like there’s almost no gap filling happening in the original picture. If you really do need 10 walls, I wonder if getting gap filling to more fully engage would have fixed it. Because then the gaps would have been filled, and the bridging could have attached to the gap filling instead of floating in thin air with no attachment.

How do I do this?
I tried reducing the two parameters shown in the image below by a factor of 10, but didn’t help it.

Try this:

Screenshot 2024-04-15 215934

Maybe there are other setting locations as well. Not sure.

Did you have to enable some advanced feature to get access to “Apply gap fill”? I can’t find that in Bambu Studio 1.8.4.51 that I am running.

That was hard to find,

Go to Preferences (Ctrl+P), check the “Develop mode” box.

I thought it was a Develop mode issue as well but can’t get it to show in either Standard or Develop mode. Perhaps it’s related to a specific version? I’m running 1.8.4.51

Develop mode
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Standard mode
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I found it in beta 1.9.0.69.

Oh my gosh. Sorry guys, I didn’t get notice that anyone had replied after I had posted, so this drifted off my radar, or I would have replied sooner. To fix that going forward , I changed it over to watching.

Sorry to put you guys on such a hunt. I never imagined this would happen. The screen shot is from Orca slicer. I somehow overlooked that the title of this thread is about Bambu Studio, and I suppose the reason is that I thought practically everyone had already migrated to Orca Slicer anyway. I mean, I can name lots of reasons to prefer Orca Slicer over Bambu Studio. Is there even a single reason to prefer Bambu Studio over Orca Slicer? Maybe there is. Maybe there are several, but I couldn’t name you even one. Well, anyway, that’s the source of my error; Orca Slicer has so completely replaced Bambu Studio in my head that in my mind Bambu Studio no longer exists as a separate thing. I forget not everyone uses it.

I suppose the good news is you were able to find the feature in a beta version. For those who want to stay in Bambu Studio, at least that way there’s a way for them to try it.

I just didn’t know about Orca, giving it a try and already see a feature done that I thought would be useful which is forcing manually drawn seams to be vertical. Was a pain to try and keep my mouse straight when trying to do this. Thanks!

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