The tan color is PLA. The supports are generated, now it prints a layer of PLA on top (which I want!) however it only generates 1 layer and I would like to generate 2 or 3 before making the interface layer. Why? Because I am using 0.2mm nozzle and 0.06mm nozzle height for quality and PLA object with PETG support interface. (PLA & PETG are equivalent to water and super hydrophobic powder which is great, but if the PLA layer on top of the supports is not a full layer, which happens with 0.2mm at 0.06mm layer height, it has difficultly bridging, and the PETG will not stick well enough to bridge itself).
I believe this may be a bridging issue and the PLA is having issues bridging across the supports. Any advice on how to better calibrate bridges in Bambu Studio or Orca Slicer?
You could try cutting the model at the layer where the pla starts again on top of your petg interface layer
Make sure place on cut is not selected in the cut tool so everything stays in place
After you make the cut do not assemble yet
Do these cuts on every plane you would like the extra layer of PLA
For each section you would like an extra layer of PLA select 2 bottom layers
After all of that right click and select all
Right click again on the items and select assemble
That miiiiight work
I use the cut tool and hight range modifier a lot myself and those tools open up the doors to many other possible tweaks to your slicing parameters
Hmm that is something I did not think about. However I am currently running test prints to dial in my settings and as I plan to print more complex figures that would become difficult to cut. But thank you for the suggestion!
[Solution] Turns out the top PLA layer printed on top of the PLA supports is also a “PLA Support” thus the speed settings apply to that top PLA layer. As 150mm/s is too fast for bridging with 0.06mm layer height, I cranked down the support speed and it fixed the issue.