The strings are very fine, and I probably had wrong slicer settings which I will review.
But it will come down to how do I remove the tree supports from the strings in the print? The strings are very fine. Should I try to free the strings before going to the larger pieces of support? X-Acto knife or some other tool?
I’m very discouraged but I’m going to keep this particular print and, hopefully with some suggestions here, learn better how to handle support removal. Then I will try the model again.
I have always used automatically generated supports. So I mark the spiral and Jesus for supports but not the strings? I have not done this. I will look for videos and pages on this but if anyone has links I would appreciate them…
You can change the support threshold angle to 25. The 3MF file has it set to 2. If that dont work you will need to paint the supports on. I don’t think I had to paint them though.
As far as removing supports goes, I only use something sharp at the end of removing supports to do any necessary cleanup if parts have stuck too hard to the support.
At the beginning I use long precision needle-nose pliers, long precision flat jaw pliers, and sometimes open jaw wire cutters. Mostly crushing and twisting to break it free and with the various small pliers I work on removing the supports a little at a time. That is unless the supports end up being really big, won’t hurt the model coming off all at once, and just look neat on their own.
But with supports, patience and not getting too aggressive pays dividends.
Use the profile provided; there shouldn’t be any supports on the strings. The model description explains multiple times that good calibration and bridging are required for a successful print.
