Hi, is there a way to make the supports thinner? By default the tree supports have 2 rails which are thicker, can this be reduced somehow? I have a component that I would like to print more often and the supports are difficult to remove with pliers.
hi @Highlander ,
I am not sure what you mean by thinner, but sure, it is possible.
The advanced settings entail several options, such as branch diameter, e.g.:
Additionally, you can always choose tree slim:
If, on the other hand you aim for thinner walls,
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Thx,
i meen the walls, is it possible to make one wall? On your pics are two walls on the supports too.
You might also want to look at the z-axis settings on support and maybe look at other support materials. There’s water soluble support that will just dissolve away and leaves a pretty clean surface. I haven’t used it yet but recently had a project where that would have been helpful. There’s also suppot material that doesn’t dissolve but that filaments don’t stick well to.
The z-axis stuff is how much gap there is between the support and the model. With regular filament, too little gap and the model can weld itself to the support and make it hard to clean up. Too much gap and the layer it was supporting can get kind of loopy and loose looking.
Yes, I know the material, but it is not suitable for my purposes. After the latest update my transitions generally look weird and I still don’t know why. The Z-distance is 0.16mm (unchanged after update). However, after removing the supports, the transitions look like they were printed in air. Any closer and I can’t get them off, on old projects with the old slicer version I was at 0.30 - 0.25mm and that looked significantly better.
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I probably annoy people with this by now but there were bad filament batches that came through in black and white Bambu Basic PLA. Your filament isn’t really shiny on the roll is it?
May be a long shot but the bad filament was really shiny on the roll but causes a number of print issues. The good Bambu filament was kind of a satin looking finish on the roll.
But even if it’s not Bambu filament, have you tried other filament or dried the filament you have?
Yes, I tried various filaments and colors, all with the same result. Used/new rolls, dried and undried etc.
I’m someone who can usually help himself and spend days looking for the cause, but here I’m at a loss.
Even with different support distances, nothing works anymore, even resetting to the old firmware and slicer didn’t work. I still have finished files on an old SD card that can still be printed without any problems, but anything newer can’t be done use more.
And Bambu himself doesn’t really know what to do next (that’s how it seems), the ticket hasn’t been answered for days and before that there were only a few things I had already done). Here are some more examples that I’m currently struggling with.
Ah - if old files already sliced work ok but reslicing them breaks them, that’s pretty conclusive (at least to the way I think about it). It would appear to point at Bambu Studio or printer firmware.
And that complicates things. I’m assuming the old files still continue to work? If so, that indicates the printer and its firmware are ok. It kind of implicates Studio. Are you certain you reverted to the correct version that worked before? Maybe some environmental issue but if you’re drying that muddies that too.
I don’t think I’m any help here. Maybe the older hands have a clue?
The problem is that if you set interface z offset big, bambu studio stops generate interface layer… its really annoying
Okay, thx.
What do you suggest for a distance that will hold well but is also easy to remove?
So the slicer can’t handle the large distance, did I understand that correctly?