So I’m trying to paint some supports in an area that gets covered midprint and I can’t figure out how to get the area visible to paint them on. The section view seems pointless as it cuts away the part diagonally and not layer by layer which is what I need. Anyone got any tips? it’s there a way to change the orientation of the section view? Thanks
Bit hard to give advise without a pic showing the specific problem…
If I got you correctly than your issue is that where you need to paint you can see the required areas as they get covered by other parts of the model…
Not sure how to fix this but you CAN rotate and pan the model in the paint mode it you click OUTSIDE the model.
So in theory you should be able to then use the section in any direction you prefer to get to where you need to paint.
And if, for example, you rotate the model so the bottom is facing the screen and RESET the direction the section cut will work from this point of view instead the standard diagonal approach.
I hope I explained it properly and that you found the reset button on the left.
I figured out a solution. So the reason I couldn’t use auto-supports was because they were putting supports where I didn’t need them too. Luckily the areas I didn’t need were visible in painting mode. So I did a manual negative paint on those, then when I switched back to auto-supports and generated them, it ignored the areas I’d negatively painted.
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Well, if that works it is a great fix indeed.
Something the hardest part is to think simple enough…
Sometimes you just can see the forest because all those (support) trees are blocking the view 
Maybe one day we will see a 3D file format allowing for easy modelling, painting AND pre-defining where we want supports.
Until then we go for easy solutions like yours
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