I have been printing a number of sculptures this week and while mostly good, I am seeing repeated issues associated with settings.

First, supports will wrap around a hand or foot and can be difficult or impossible to remove without damaging the print.

Second, a support will fall over resulting in spaghetti infill/gaps for a portion of the print.

I am printing with both a Bambu Lab P1P and X1C using Overture Rock White PETG.

  • imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Supports are tricky. Use support painting to pick areas that are less visible when possible for support scars. You Can you use prusa slicer with bambu I believe. I find organic supports scar less is many instances. Most straightforward answer is also to try increasing support spacing.

    • 0xd34d
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      1 year ago

      Bambu studio doesn’t have support painting? I’m using it in Orca slicer but maybe that was brought in from prusa slicer.

      • RuttyOP
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        1 year ago

        I use Orcaslicer, it’s manual painting is not intuitive to me. That said, I haven’t much researched how to do manual painting of supports either.

        I think it’s the next logical step in my building domain expertise in 3D printing though. It just seems like a leap.

  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Your prints look amazing honestly. Dont expect injection moulding quality. It can be improved a bit with bigger gap or different supports, but models like this are quite difficult to print on FDM. Postprocessing is kinda normal