Polysupport filament really works great :) I won't use PVA anymore if there's a

Polysupport filament really works great :slight_smile: I won’t use PVA anymore if there’s a way to reach the support structures (which are very easy to remove) afterwards.

Note that it may not work as well with PET filament. I haven’t had good luck using PolySupport with PET.

Yeah, I think I’ve read that somewhere. But I’m already happy to have someting that really works with PLA now.

It looks nice but US$40 for 500g is a tough pill to swallow.

At that price, I’d want to use it only on the support interface layers.

Removal is easy as long as you can access it and surfaces are quite clean: https://ultimaker.com/en/community/10657-a-different-multi-extrusion-approach-um-tool-printhead-changer?page=39

Not a really fair test model I think. As this might print pretty fine without support…

From what I can see in the marketing videos, the idea behind polysupport is that it don’t bond with PLA so you can pry the support material off more easily. what would be interesting to me would be is how easily can this filament be reused by putting it a filabot or such. If I could reuse it lots of times, then I don’t mind paying a premium for it.

The support filament that dissolves in water or citrus leaves me with the question of how to ethically dispose of the dissolved filament. Can I reuse the stuff after boiling away the water?

@Eric_Davies I don’t even use the d-Limonene any more. For me, HIPS generally snaps away from the part cleanly.

@Jeff_DeMaagd good, as I’ve seen some research that shows that Limonene greatly impacts ABS and PLA print strengths, even if it does not dissolves them. A chemist explained me the reason, but, it was a bit over my head :slight_smile: