I tried using the support material only to find several killer problems:
The Slicer randomly places the material in the support structure layers instead of just where the support touches the model. This greatly increased the print time and used a lot of PLA Support.
The X1C will register the support material in the AMS but will not allow me to choose it. I had to move the Support material roll to the location selected in the slicer.
My solution was to remove the support material from the model so I could print the model.
I did that. The problem, as others have replied, is that it does not work properly. Had I not set that properly, the support plastic would not have been applied anywhere.
Post a photo of your entries. If you leave the entry as “Default”, the filament of your model is used. As @Avgils indicated, the few times I’ve used it, it worked fine. Slow as a turtle though.
I think you’re using the wrong settings. If the white material is the sample included with your printer, it is Interface material, not support material. But I can’t see your settings.
Yes, it is intended to be the interface between a support and the print. That is how I set it up. One layer of the support between the two. Unfortunately, it put the material in randomly. I did not attempt to use it as an entire support, that was left to the PLA used in the print.
What do you think I’m doing wrong?
Well, it’s beyond my experience. I’m not even sure what to ask unless you want to share the file for someone to look at. What I’d be looking at first is what’s going on in the model at those locations. The bottom white layer seems to be aligned with a model transition above the base. Take a look at those layers and see if there’s some empty space or something in the model. Hopefully, someone else will come along that’s seen this before.
The X1C was run on Bambu Lab’s standard settings which have worked very well for over 800 hours of printing. So I don’t expect the Copilot answers to point to the problem.
I am not very happy with the support functions in the software. My 8-year old Qidi printer and software do a much better job at supports.
I did not try non-tree supports and I will do that and report the results.
Thanks for the inputs.
Mike
OK, here is something strange. I am not at my desktop computer and am using my laptop. No matter what support set I choose, the support filament is exactly where it should be as you can see.
The only difference in operation between the two computers is on this laptop, the software offered to set all the values to the proper ones for the use of support material,. Whereas the desktop computer’s software did not offer that and I had to manually set the values.
I may need to reinstall the desktop software.
Now I’ll have to try it on my desktop tomorrow and see if the results differ.
I would actually like to be able to ADD a few support material layers throughout the height of a support structure.
In some cases even the tree supports get so dense it is hard to remove the big chunks before going to the delicate bits.
Even the option to add an interference layer below every junction would be helpful for some of my models…
