Anyone else been testing Slic3r 1.2.1? My Kossel Mini is half way through my phone stand print. I’m surprised just how much filament is going into support material to be ripped out when done. But it the final object is good it’s worth it. Maybe I should make a filament recycling machine too.
What is going on with all the strings? It looks like retraction is turned off or something, is that somehow support material? I’m curious to see the final product after you’ve cleaned it up (assuming the print finishes OK)
If finished okay. Some of the support material is proving hard to get off.
Haven’t tried 1.2.X yet. I gave up on support material in 1.x, finding it less than useless. I keep a copy of 0.9.10b around when I need support material. I draw my own whenever possible. I’d like to see/hear more about support in 1.2.X. Is it useful now? The problem was that they decided to have supports stick out beyond their region of support. This often put support material into voids of my print in ways that it could not be removed effectively. i gave up.
That’s the problem I’ve had cleaning up this print. It’s got a big void in the middle. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:572700 It made me wonder if dual heads and water soluble filament for supports was possible.
slic3r 0.9.x should do fine on that.
There are other slicers out there that can generate support material … Kisslicer, Cura, MatterControl, CraftWare, NetFabb, Simplify3D… Just sayin’.
kisslicer – free, but closed source
mattercontrol – free, but closed source, windows and mac only
craftware – free, but closed source, windows and mac only
netfabb – commercial. “Basic” is free… but I don’t know how limited it is.
Simplify3D – commercial.
If anybody knows another OSS project, or slic3r fork, please let me know.
@Aaron_Birenboim Well there’s:
Cura: Free and open source (here: https://github.com/daid/Cura)
There’s always RepSnapper! LOL
Whats the news on RepSnapper? Is it dead? Although C++ is my best language (I am old), it is not my preferred language. Although I prefer to promote Open Source whenever possible, I don’t want to waste my time on a dead end.
now following cura. Any idea how much support they have for non-utimaker printers? Will look deeper. Thanks.
RepSnapper isn’t totally dead but its been a few months since the last update, which was only bug fixes. Its downfall is that it isn’t very easy to use and its feature set is behind the times.
Cura doesn’t discriminate and is great for anything but calibrating /manual controls (the manual controls are basic). It’s my go-to slicer and host. The supports are good but it still takes practice to learn how to configure for different prints.