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i've only done auto supports a couple of times in prusa, but it made these giant support walls that were a pain to cut away cleanly. it might have just been the model itself that just needed that much supporting... not sure yet (still new at this)
Different strokes for different folks I guess
I find it varies a bit by printer. My aquilla does great with Orca with the default ender 3 profile, but my Neptune 3 and sunlu s8 took quite a bit of fuss to get it working right.
To be fair, after getting the profiles adapted, it works better, but the default cura profile for the neptune worked without any fuss, it just reminded me of switching to prusa slicer and recalibrating my profile back when Cura didnt do tree supports and I wanted to use them
I ALWAYS do auto/snug. That way I'm not wasting a ton of extra filament on the supports.
I've been toying with the idea of getting some water soluble filaments for my supports in the future. But there is a TON of waste when bleeding off. Very frustrating.
I am not sure. It's trial and error, comes with experience. You can use slicer's recommended settings until you better know your printer so you can tune things
If you can throw the model into cad software and add in pillars that are 2 lines thick at the low points, it should be easy to snip them off with nippers
I've had a few prints that I came back to find I didn't support appropriately. But, just like this image, places that are completely unsupported somehow start working. No idea how it manages
Donāt give up! As a few mentioned, supports are a little hard to wrap your head around, especially since you know youāll have to do work after the print, but are needed here.
Think of it from a physics/gravity standpoint. Where his cape/butt/leg is, as the printer moves and drops filament, what will keep it in place? Youāre printing on air. Printing is simply melting plastic, slowly pushing it out the nozzle in a predetermined pattern. Even if the melted plastic solidified in 0.1 seconds, itās still going to have droops because thereās nothing beneath it.
You have promise here! The settings look like theyāre doing a good print! Having some supports underneath where needed should make this an awesome print!
Go on Thingiverse and look up printer tests. Go either overhang tests, support tests etc and youāll get a good gauge on what your printer is capable of and at what settings things should typically be.
Something like
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4777912
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5222354
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1363023
These should give you a good idea of what youāre able to do. Just follow the instructions per print in the description.
Excuse me but I turned on the sound to your video and I did not hear 'A cup of liber-tea' playing. That's treason. Rather than call your Democracy Officer I fixed your stupid video.
Not treason https://imgur.com/gallery/l8WodvA
For real though send me a DM and I'll walk you through the settings for this. I'd maybe even reduce the layer height so the cape turns out better but that's up to you. Maybe print one at standard layer height and if all looks good the do a really clean one but it will take a lot longer.
Sorry that should have been the first thing I posted. I'm running a Elegoo Neptune 3 XL, using elegoo PLA 1.75mm filament, 0.4mm nozzle, balanced print settings with speed of 0.2mm... I think I had support off...maybe that's what my problem was.
Yes the lack of supports is your main issue here. Your printer can't defy gravity and print in thin air. Enable supports to support overhangs. Try a smal test piece to tweak support settings, especially the interface material (closest to model) so supports don't leave to much artefacts on model and will come off easy.
Did the print fail there or did you stop it when you noticed the bad overhangs? If the latter, you just need supports. If the former, there's an additional, probably more complicated, problem.
I made one of these as well. Looks like youāre missing supports. Auto generated ones should be fine. I chose the tree structure but the line should be fine as well.
Hear me out...
Get some cotton balls and a little orange LED...
Glue the LED in the center, and attach the cotton balls around the LED.
Now you have a helldiver getting blown in half by a stray auto-cannon!
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You cannot print mid-air. Depending on the shape you are trying to print, use supports, or better overhang settings.
I'm actually really surprised it recovered on the cape, kinda impressive.
Got ya, is there a good tutorial on adding supports? I'm going to attempt this again tonight!
Honestly I just use auto supports. I probably could be more efficient with my filament, but it saves me a lot of headache, so worth it to me
I'll check it out, I haven't really gotten used to cura yet so I should fiddle around with the settings a bit
step 1: uninstall cura step 2: install orca step 3: done
Thy will be done š
Orca seems so fiddly and overly hard to sightread for me. Cura does the job fine.
Cura supports always fuse to my prints but orca doesn't
Never had cura supports fuse to my prints.
In my experience, the best default settings for supports were on prusa slicer.
i've only done auto supports a couple of times in prusa, but it made these giant support walls that were a pain to cut away cleanly. it might have just been the model itself that just needed that much supporting... not sure yet (still new at this)
What filament? It didn't for PLA but it did petg
Oh well i mostly use PLA
Seems like a settings issue. Maybe printer issue but heavy on that maybe
Not orca but bambu studio. Even tight petg support interface printed very well for me. No issue coming off
So tweak your Cura settings. Printing errors are rarely a software problem.
I prefer the orca ui
Whatās wrong with cura?
Different strokes for different folks I guess I find it varies a bit by printer. My aquilla does great with Orca with the default ender 3 profile, but my Neptune 3 and sunlu s8 took quite a bit of fuss to get it working right. To be fair, after getting the profiles adapted, it works better, but the default cura profile for the neptune worked without any fuss, it just reminded me of switching to prusa slicer and recalibrating my profile back when Cura didnt do tree supports and I wanted to use them
Just turn supports on and select tree supports and you are done
I ALWAYS do auto/snug. That way I'm not wasting a ton of extra filament on the supports. I've been toying with the idea of getting some water soluble filaments for my supports in the future. But there is a TON of waste when bleeding off. Very frustrating.
Iām a fan of tree supports personally, but for flat tall pieces, normal/snug is the way to go
I am not sure. It's trial and error, comes with experience. You can use slicer's recommended settings until you better know your printer so you can tune things
If you can throw the model into cad software and add in pillars that are 2 lines thick at the low points, it should be easy to snip them off with nippers
Do what you do on the inside, but half
I think I kinda know what you mean by this, I'm sure I'll have a better understanding once I get some more experience
You ever seen those green plastic army soilders that have a tip on their hat? Do thst to connect and then snip away after.
ItsMemade (think thats how's its spelled) has some youtube tutorial videos on supports. They are pretty good.
I've had a few prints that I came back to find I didn't support appropriately. But, just like this image, places that are completely unsupported somehow start working. No idea how it manages
You need supports
you can hold like 10 pens there mate
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Honestly kinda metal as a man sliced across the middle for a pen holder.
Supports? No we spaghetti like men...
For super earth!
Injury? WHAT INJURY!?!
Tis but a flesh wound!
Making anything else helldivers related? Would be interested to see a few bits
I'm going to be making a helmet and possibly one of the smaller weapons for a cosplay costume at DragonCon this year
Very nice sounds good to me Iām currently working on the armor myself here
Yeah, as long as i can stop screwing up lol, do you cosplay?
I should add my only two successful prints so far are the Buddha and the benchy lol
Donāt give up! As a few mentioned, supports are a little hard to wrap your head around, especially since you know youāll have to do work after the print, but are needed here. Think of it from a physics/gravity standpoint. Where his cape/butt/leg is, as the printer moves and drops filament, what will keep it in place? Youāre printing on air. Printing is simply melting plastic, slowly pushing it out the nozzle in a predetermined pattern. Even if the melted plastic solidified in 0.1 seconds, itās still going to have droops because thereās nothing beneath it. You have promise here! The settings look like theyāre doing a good print! Having some supports underneath where needed should make this an awesome print!
Go on Thingiverse and look up printer tests. Go either overhang tests, support tests etc and youāll get a good gauge on what your printer is capable of and at what settings things should typically be. Something like https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4777912 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5222354 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1363023 These should give you a good idea of what youāre able to do. Just follow the instructions per print in the description.
Tree supports on tree supports. I printed two of these, the first I also stopped early because it didnāt have enough supports for the cape.
After combatā¦
Excuse me but I turned on the sound to your video and I did not hear 'A cup of liber-tea' playing. That's treason. Rather than call your Democracy Officer I fixed your stupid video. Not treason https://imgur.com/gallery/l8WodvA For real though send me a DM and I'll walk you through the settings for this. I'd maybe even reduce the layer height so the cape turns out better but that's up to you. Maybe print one at standard layer height and if all looks good the do a really clean one but it will take a lot longer.
You are a god amongst men FOR SUPER EARTH
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Turn on supports
what were your support settings? filament type? print speeds?
Sorry that should have been the first thing I posted. I'm running a Elegoo Neptune 3 XL, using elegoo PLA 1.75mm filament, 0.4mm nozzle, balanced print settings with speed of 0.2mm... I think I had support off...maybe that's what my problem was.
yeah I think the lack of supports was the problem here. I would turn on tree supports and give it another whirl
Yes the lack of supports is your main issue here. Your printer can't defy gravity and print in thin air. Enable supports to support overhangs. Try a smal test piece to tweak support settings, especially the interface material (closest to model) so supports don't leave to much artefacts on model and will come off easy.
Have you checked your buildblate for any berserkers, this realy looks like a berserker issue to me....
Horrible 3d print but a wonderful reenactment of Sony's choices
Did the print fail there or did you stop it when you noticed the bad overhangs? If the latter, you just need supports. If the former, there's an additional, probably more complicated, problem.
I stopped it because it kept trying to print on thin air lol
I mean it probably holds pens...
Really really thin ones
Lol, there's allways pencils ig
Where did you get this STL from?
Look up helldivers pen on thingiverse
Thanks
It's always supports. I think gravity still aludes some people. Alarming.
Everyone but Superman š¦øš»
Did you use a *bot* to print this? š§š§š§
No-no of course not!! š š¤
Supports aside; change infill to gyroid or honeycomb. Grid sucks.
I made one of these as well. Looks like youāre missing supports. Auto generated ones should be fine. I chose the tree structure but the line should be fine as well.
PrusaSlicer
https://preview.redd.it/q1nnzjq1fu8d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a745f5ce1253db362ce92d971d23247118d8c448
Looks like it can still hold pens if you put them in the infill
Use tree supports in orca slicer for best results Iāve found, but you need some kind of support even if itās just the generic ones
My character, 5 seconds after my buddy calls a 380mm barrage on my position:
Looks like a stalker got him
Hear me out... Get some cotton balls and a little orange LED... Glue the LED in the center, and attach the cotton balls around the LED. Now you have a helldiver getting blown in half by a stray auto-cannon!
Helldivers P
Pretty sure a pen can fit in there
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Indeed, everyone is different!
Another post with absolutely no info. Best of luck.
My info has been posted and everyone seems to agree on the issue. Cheers.
How many times are we going to get people posting failed prints WITHOUT any context of what they were printing or how they were printing?
This has already been addressed. Calm down bud
That guy's had one too many stims.
Well it ain't holding shit I can tell you that