Don't want to design your own Support Fins? Get the STL's here: www.angled.xyz/product-page/support-fins-for-tilted-designs-stl

There;s another huge benefit to this slanted printing tyechnique, which you hinted at with mention of a textured finish. Now that NO SURFACE is printed on the bed, it's possible to be very creative with what you print on the surfaces; logos, ridges, grips, etc. all become possibilities.

"3D print on a slant" - Channel name checks out 👍

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Shift in perspective

@impetus444

2 ай бұрын

I think its hilarious that I didn't figure that out til about the 20th video I watched where everything was printed on an angle :D

@Deaner3D

27 күн бұрын

"Print with a peg-leg"

I've always heard that angled printing is great but never considered how to get over the toppling issue. Thank you for explaining so clearly for us!

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Glad to help

@davidboop3550

5 ай бұрын

Man, I second that. Thank you so much! I just split a part into two pieces where I could have just went with your idea. I truly appreciate your help.

@MinibossMakaque

5 ай бұрын

I've been doing something similar, but I just use the paint on supports in Prusa or Orca rather than building a support into the design.

I love the clear, concise and quick delivery from this channel.

@slant3d

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

This was exactly what I needed for a complex enclosure design, I was just resigning myself to having to print it in three pieces then saw this. Decided to give it a go and man did it work well! Thanks so much for taking the time to share this trick.

This is where 3D printing really shines: Have any PCB and _always_ get a case with the perfect mount points. And (traditional) case manufacturers seem to have noticed - prices seem to be coming down... Thank you for your videos (I watched the entire playlist over the last few days 🤓)!

I love this series. I don't intend to mass produce anything, but still use this as a design guide for my future projects to avoid failed prints and filament waste (both for ecological and financial reasons).

I would love to have a "noise" texture tutorial! What are good settings, maybe for what shape / use case? What do you think?

@TEACypher

5 ай бұрын

I second this, i came across a 3d print at work earlier this week, which i thought was molded, but assured it was 3d printed, this noise could well explain it and i would love to replicate at home

@briansrcadventures1316

5 ай бұрын

@@TEACypher try "fuzzy skin" setting in the slicer?

@DrFailov

5 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! Definitely will consider trying this. As for noize for outer shell: can you please share your parameters of fuzzy skin to try same? Looks really good 👍

@riba2233

5 ай бұрын

they already made it

@richardyoung5349

5 ай бұрын

Doesn’t that affect all external walls? If so, it would interfere with tolerances on items that are intended to mate

I just did this for a new print that took 7-8hrs. I was a bit nervous as I always used supports. The end result was amazing. 😃 I didn't have a 45' on the bottom edge of my print, it was a 90' point which proved fatal after the first few minutes. I proceeded to add a .04mm base around the point edge that easily shaved off post processing. Thanks for the tilt orientation tip, will be doing this much more often.

Wow thank you for the great suggestion. I have a box that I was printing up and it was costing a lot only for support. This method allowed me to save 40% of material.

Great idea! I like how you keep the video shortened to the point. I don’t like watching videos that are so long that you don’t finish them sometimes. You’re the best!

I've just started 3d printing about a month ago. I was thinking that printing diagonally would solve lots of problems, but i hadn't seen a video of anyone doing it. Thanks for explaining this.

@goury

5 ай бұрын

It will also introduce a lot of new problems. Another way to solve a lot of problems is to go composite. It can be as simple as just printing different parts each in the most beneficial orientation and then assembling em all together or not so simple as using different methods of manufacturing for different parts. This way does not add many new problems, but does make it much more complicated.

@thenextension9160

4 ай бұрын

@@gouryyes I think you are right. These methods are not all or the other. For example the enclosure could be printed slanted but the lid be printed with ideal face facing down for a nice build plate texture.

You just made several improvements to an item that i have been making for our company Thank You!

Feels like using the supporting techniques from resin printing in fdm printing. awesome

I love the way your videos expand my thinking of what's possible. Thank you!

nice and short and straight to the point . good video . thumbs up

Thanks! Tried the support variation immediately and it worked like a charm 😊 ❤

I do this trick with organic prints at times. As I have an FDM and an SLA printer, I have the mindset of Resin printing that uses the "angle" technique a lot. I've actually (with good success) set up resin prints, exported them, and then printed them with my FDM printer. Meaning I've used the supports generated from the Chitubox to print on my FDM printer. I have not delved into designing custom supports, but it definitely, inspired me to do so. This "fin" idea is really great!.

well i'm immediately glad i stumbled onto this channel. my cad game is about to change

I love this concept. Will have to give it a shot on some test items. Thanks for sharing. Love the fuzzy look of the print as well.

Great again, thank you! Your design tips took my printing to a new level of capabilities!

Just tried out printing at 45 degrees with the fuzzy pattern and it looks amazing, what a great idea!

I tried this and it worked really well, perfect actually.

I did exactly this when printing some custom Chicago screw fasteners and now I feel retroactively smart.

Very good video! Especially showing the original part and how people can essentially remix an existing product, make it better, and include it in a larger project. Good job man.

With modern slicers, tree support doesn't cost much material or postproc for the vertical orientation. But diagonal still has lots of benefits. My favorite is that an assembly-relevant dimension of the part isn't dependent on bed offset (which isn't perfectly reproducible) or on layer height quantization.

@802Garage

5 ай бұрын

You'll still end up with much better walls using this trick rather than printing them vertically with weak layer lines or horizontally with a 90 degree supported overhang.

@rbrdly

5 ай бұрын

Tree support won't be as clean to remove as this method either.

Not being from the molding world, I had to listen to 3:22 about 50 times. Finally I think he said "sprue" so I looked it up and shazzam - I have learned an entirely new word.

@_..-.._..-.._

4 ай бұрын

Same

@MarkHarrison-rp2tq

3 ай бұрын

same, I was like, "screw? screw?"

your videos are gold. thanks for your service!

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

You just solved a major issue i had with concrete printing. way to go!

@TechMasterRus

5 ай бұрын

Going to print a house on its corner?😅

@_..-.._..-.._

4 ай бұрын

@@TechMasterRusyou can fit more of them into a neighborhood.

Great video Gabe! I love how you desigbed the support and used sprues to easily come off. Plus being able to add texture to all sides is great for this. I just did a fuzzy skin tutorial on my channel but you cant get the top layer fuzzy. With this in a lot of cases you can

I tried this yesterday on a small project and it worked well. As it was only 2 items I just used Cura custom and auto supports in combination. Thanks

Just wow. Glad that i discovered this channel earlier. ❤

This is awesome! I will try it in a smaller scale. Maybe i dont even need fins. If you turn everything 45° nothing needs to be supported. So simple but effective. Thank you!

interesting technology. I just tested it on a small case. it was printed well. printing at an angle helped to minimize shrinkage of ABS plastic. thanks!

Great idea! Thanks for sharing and showing how it's done in CAD! Many greetings from Germany.

This channel is a gold mine for beginners like me who make their own models to 3D print

@rubenverster250

3 ай бұрын

Now I just have to figure out how to design properly ':D

I took your advice on this from past videos and printed a wall mounted headphones hanger I designed by cutting the back corner off off and printing at an angle. The base was about 45x60mm but now I was only printing about 8x60mm on the build plate. Gave me a super smooth surface on the rounded bottom where the headphones sit rather than lots of ledges from the layer lines. The front and back walls that keep the headphones centered printed fine even at 35-50 degree angles. Not the right approach for every part I think, but makes a lot of sense for many. Of course better to remove from the plate for production too.

@802Garage

5 ай бұрын

I did not design a support, but it wasn't needed for such a small part. One of my considerations was also strengthening the two screw holes as you mentioned and making the front wall that keeps the headphones in place stronger by not making the layers perfectly vertical. Worked great the part is very strong despite being a couple mm thick at the front.

I can see this still be useful for one-offs in some cases (ha!). Great idea!

Amazing recommendation on the support structure, and doesn't look too hard design into the part! Thanks for the tip :)

Oh! I always use the straight edge overlap for lid when i need it to seal and self adjust, but this inclined edge look way more better. I give it a try straightaway 👍

Thanks for sharing your experience. I really enjoy your Content. Cheers

Thank you! Very well explained and digestable. I have some components to print that I've been dreading due to the overwhelming amount of support material. This solves that dilemma.

We learn something new each day, today I learned this - thanks :-)

That's an elegant solution!

I learned this by accident when printing the bridge of a stringed instrument on my Ender 3. I had to orient it diagonally with some support primitives to make it fit on the bed, and found that is ended up being one of the strongest objects I'd ever printed.

I really appericate the concise video and concepts! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your custom supports techniques. Brilliant

@slant3d

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

So I want to give you kudos for the idea of a slanted print!! I had a battery holder for my Meta Quest 2 that has only 2 mm walls around the battery and it snapped along the layer lines to easy so remembering this video, I thickened it up at the base and cut it off so I could print it at 45 degrees and also had no support!! thanks

Awesome! Very useful. Thank you!

Showing the strength difference of a 45 degree print in another video might be cool, with solid numbers and such. I've always thought 45 degree is probably a good general orientation for strength but no ones really done much research on it.

Hey, I discovered your YT channel a while back and I really enjoy the content and all the knowledge- thank you ❤

i actually built and tested my second printer 5 minutes ago (Tronxy XX11, built from two Tronxy X1's - to make portal instead of arm), you guys are inspiration for me to do so, thank you very much!

@KensCounselingCouch

5 ай бұрын

That sounds really cool! Do you have a link or video of your XX11 you built? I'm very curious to see what it looks like and how it prints. Thanks!

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

We appreciate that. Best of luck to you

@kcalbxof

5 ай бұрын

@@KensCounselingCouch havent changed anything yet about firmware or even settings, so print quality is really bad. Basically mirrored all of it, so build volume is the same, but it is now more rigid and stable. Noise is the same, though, which is sad. That may be due to usage of cxy-v1 board with bad stepper drivers. That thing is ancient, but for its price (it was 1/3 of a price of anycubic kobra neo which i own), i wont complain. I would be changing plastic stock bed with glass one, then adding heated bed - need to figure out how to make it temperature resistant, acrylic bed base wont be good for 90 C bedtemp i need for PETG, for example. Lots of work to do, but it is quite fun project for me. Here are the photos of it and test print that came on sd card, both of it look lame, tbh. ( ibb.co/30DHG2n ibb.co/kHhTK0N )

One of the best 3d printing tutorial on YT ❤

@slant3d

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

The bit about built in supports was great. I have not yet tried it on my designs, but I can see the uses. Also, printing at an angle like this would likely be less prone to warping off of the table like a long part would.

This is very helpful for a project I hope I 1day get to make :) thank you for being so open about your best production practices

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Glad we can help

Thanks for the tip...its really great😊

I have to test it - need some enclosure for my ADS-B tracker, so here we go! :)

Excellent. I particularly appreciate the designed-in supports concept. I will definitely design some things to print at an angle next time I am concerned about horizontal/vertical layer delamination.

Having printed for multiple years, and exposed to the internet for too long. I was really sceptical of this "miraculous" claim. But gave it a look. And it actually makes a lot of sense, most printers print happily at a 45 degree angle and even greater. I'm not a fan of the knurled look, but hey, if it just needs to hold electrical components, looks doesn't really matter. I for one will keep this in mind going forward.

This is great advice! I’ve learned so much about FDM 3D Print CAD design from this channel

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Thanks

You should learn to use tree supports with the option of baseplate only. Bayer auto-generated easy and clean to remove

I'm going to use this method for printing longer items. I have a printable area of 220mm so for larger items I often print corner to corner to escape that restriction. This will allow me to take that even further. Thanks.

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Another great application for this

This was amazing. Thanks!

The texture is awesome

Awesome as always. I need a master class in cad software by you in my life haha.

Thanks for sharing this great tip.

thank you for the ideas

Great ideas! Thanks.

Fantastic stuff. TYVM.

I really like this. Primarlily as it eliminates the possibility of bed adhesion problems. But the perks of fewer supports (for grid aligned geometries), and better use of build volume is crazy.

@_..-.._..-.._

4 ай бұрын

You have far less area to adhere though, this method is more likely to come loose printing at high speed on a Cartesian (core Z) printer. It does help if you have over-adhesion, but not if you have too little.

@SeanLumly

4 ай бұрын

@@_..-.._..-.._ That depends on the support structure built. I've since used the method to good effect, but not at speed. However, it produced a very nice part.

This is freaking sweet. This channel gives a lot of great design tips. Good stuff!!

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Thank you

Very helpful and great timing, I'm working on an enclosure design right now.

for that nice kind of matte texture, i've noticed bambu's PLA-CF material does a good job at producing that kind of texture without needing to add noise to the 3d print.

@Slant3d Awesome video! Really valuable. Thanks for sharing :)

Super impressed! I would have thought you’d need more support. Definitely going to try this. The noise looks good and would also hide some imperfections like seams etc. thanks for sharing.

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Underated surface texture

great information! i just started this journey and have been using shapr3d . i am realizing that alot of the custom supports might be triangle based so this is helpful. in the few prints I have made I was also thinking there has to be a better way than auto generated supports so this is also very helpful. the secret sauce

I have got to try that method for designing supports in CAD! I definitely do notice the wobble when using auto-generated supports, this looks like a great solution! P.S. Fits your channel name perfectly lol

Very cool. I gotta try this

Great tip using the thin support on the back side. Can you please post the CAD model so we can have a closer look at the dimensions used in the supports?

@redfox05nl

5 ай бұрын

Yes this, would like to understand the support in more detail

This is also a great technique to avoid print warping.

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Very true

YEA BOIIII! My favourite printing method!

Today's show- Over the top GOOD! congrats

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Excellent video - Well done!!

Well done ⭐️your videos are excellent. So informative 👌

As always awesome content, awesome ideas, awesome advices, awesome explanation, awesome everything

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

That's different. I'll need to keep that in mind.

Great idea, thank you

That's pretty nice. I like the idea. 👍👌I don't know if you mentioned it, but you also prevent it from warping, because you don't print big surfaces. I will try this and hope it will work on my bed slinger.

Great video. Thx.

Well done!

I'll have to give that a try some time.

So this is interesting. I have a conveyor belt 3D printer (CR-30) that inherently prints at a 45⁰ angle. I always thought of that as a negative. I think I'll try to design some stuff with that extra strength in mind.

genius. thanks 🙂

Great tip. It's worth considering though that this will also increase the mass and print time. You notice on the slicer that you get additional walls when you print on the diagonal to ensure vertical shell thickness during printing, all those purple walls. You could maybe add another 2 walls to the flat print for a faster print with similar weight and strength.

Interesting, thanks.

Amazing !!

Great video! Video idea related to this one: You guys should do one about how to add fuzzy skin on designs in both Fusion360 and Shapr3D

@VariablePenguin

4 ай бұрын

Why add fuzzy skin to the model when you can just do it in the slicer?

Awesome insights, thanks!!

Thanks, make me think and learn each time, you are the best!

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that. Thanks for watching