It took me 1 hour to remove the grid support from my 6 hr print object!! I meant to put lines but i guess i miss clicked it.
yep the secret to making 3D printing userfriendly is a soluble support material… however I havent found any good one until now ( except the Stratasys material)
@marc_kerger I tried PVA on my FF Pro and it was horrible; it’s main problem seems to be it’s hygroscopic nature (which is an understandable quality for something that dissolves in water!), unless it’s absolutely bone dry it flops around all over the place.
The Ultimaker 3 is supposed to be pretty good at using PVA and it’s something I’d like to use, as I sit here digging bits of support out of a model…
I’d love to try PVA supports, but I only have one extruder and the cost of PVA filament is too high. 
You can also try HIPS with ABS. I’ve used it on a MakerBot. Works pretty well but takes forever to dissolve in the limonene. And the part forever smells like oranges
I don’t know the considerations but that part could be cone as two or three pieces and friction fit or glued together and possibly be stronger as a result, use less material and build much faster and much less fuss in post processing too.
@Eric_Moy LOL! I tried to use HIPS a while back and it was just a horrible mess, as well as making the place smell of oranges for weeks! I suppose there could be worse things to smell of…
I like to use a dremel to remove support material. dremel bits go through plastic like a hot knife through butter.
@Chapman_Baetzel I’ve been playing with the idea of 3D printing a mount so I can use my Dremel as a mini “table saw” or “router” complete with guide fences, just to clean up parts.
If your supports are too hard to remove, just weaken them by printing them faster or thinner. I’ve never have to break out the dremel or any other power tools, at most some needle-nose pliers and a box cutter. ^^
@allanGEE that sounds like way too much work. Less than 1% of my prints require support. I feel that needing support material is a failure from the design standpoint. I design parts to not need support if at all possible. I’d much rather screw or glue separate parts together than use support.
@Chapman_Baetzel Sorry, I reread my comment above and I shouldn’t have used “just” to clean up parts. I do a lot of other fiddly detail work and often have the Dremel zig when I wanted it to zag.
Like you, I enjoy the challenge of designing something in separate parts that will fit together – but my design skills are in the PRE-newbie stage. 
@Jon_Gritton With the Ultimaker 3 we managed to find PVA that is less sensitive to moister, how it does that is a trade secret (beh, I would love to share). We’re also using a different hotend design to prevent a few other problems that come up with PVA printing.
However, it can still be problematic in some parts of the world where it is hot and wet.
The results however, amazing. We have stuff printed now that used to be SLA only.
HIPS was never an option for us. Limonene is a fire risk. But, even worse, it also degrades ABS, and solves PLA. So yes, you can print ABS supported prints with it, but the prints will be of less quality.
PVA isn’t the holy solution for everything. For example, ABS with PVA isn’t perfect, as the ABS refuses to stick to it. PVA and nylon however, AMAZING stuff.
Keep tempting me @Daid_Braam and I might just put an order in… What’s your delivery time like to the UK these days?
@Jon_Gritton We have a network of sales partners these days, which all keep printers on stock. Our UK one has printers in stock and promises next day delivery:
Begone are the days of 5-12 weeks of waiting for your Ultimaker 