I had a student experimenting with making her own support like your comb but she had problem with dimensions and count of the sprues to get enough support but clean break. At age 13 she did not have the math to do any kind of calculation of the forces, plus was working in TinkerCad; so it was going to be a series of empirical iterations. Instead of the five posts, she ended up putting in text of several characters with total size 2mm x 10mm that face up from the comb. Then she experimented with changing text from " - - - " to "MMM" to " C C C " to quickly change shape and quantity of sprue. Clever kid.

These supports are genius and I never knew these kinds of things existed. Thank you, learned something new today.

Good idea. I had a similar problem in my last project and solved it with special support parts directly in my stl file. The way you have done it means that you don't have to think about support when designing. Thanks.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. You are welcome

the growth of FMD tree supports can autimatacally achive this into the futer, I think maker's muse did a good video recently on more modern support generation.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Any autogenerated support requires spacing in order to be removable. That spacing allows these types of features to settle which will cause distortions in the print. So you can't reliably use software supports in this case

@DaveGnomesteeze

7 ай бұрын

@@slant3d I love this use of thumbtacks. However, this comment is simply untrue. Change the Z distance in support settings to 0 and it still slices. I've use this method multiple times without any issue. This is in Cura 5.5, I leave the z distance when slicing in bambu studio.

Simply genius. This solves so many problems I have during printing.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

That is was helpful.

Yes please and thank you! I'm always fighting fangs on my projects. I've been using an I beam type support that I had to shave the sides off each time. I'm going to give this a try and see.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Glad to help

I think in an earlier vid on printing a cube at an angle, you made a support of vertical plane 1mm thick with sprues, placed along underside of edge of cube. We now frequently use that technique instead of auto-supports. It does the support perfectly and snaps right off in post processing. Why not same here? A plate oriented in the sagittal plane of the bird, with an edge shaped to follow the contour of neck, chin and beak.

Great idea for the support. I learn something today. Thank you sir

Learning so much each episode, thanks

And... I learn something new every day. This was a 'Why didn't I think of this' moment. Many thanks!

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

No problem. Thanks for watching

Hey the files are no longer on the patreon. Where can I get them?

impressively cunning. Thanks you so much!

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

I've actually been using thumbtacks with my models and didnt even realize it. I too was having issues with the downward pointing parts that the slicer couldnt sufficiently build support for, so i literally have just been doing .3mm tall cylinders with a 1mm wide cylinder coming up the center to meet the point. Works every time.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

Good tips, thanks m8

Whats speeds are you using to print someting like the eagle head you showed? I'm using Cura tree supp but I feel like at times the little trees shift, causing warped parts had this happen twice, printing at 60mm/s and and .28 layer height. could this be the high layer height or fast speed? also had it happen on a .16 layer height print with around 50mm/s

Excellent tips, Adding them to my arsenal!!

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Have fun!

@FriendshipLights

Жыл бұрын

@@slant3d Always!!!

Legend, literally!

Awww you made a little hat for the bird !

This is one of the smartest things ive seen for 3d printing

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Cute, but why compare to old fashioned supports? I can do all that with tree supports and custom supports already in Cura very reliably.

This is amazing. A whole new way to look at custom supports.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

what infill pattern do you guys use?

Is there a way to get the files that are not on patreon?

Great video as always! What's the latest update with your Patreon though?

Thanks for remind me that 3d builder exist and is useful

Very handy trick! I wonder how effective it would be to design my own tree support to meet the thumb tack for those hard-to-print overhangs.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea

You can just use new support of prusa Slicer

What software do you use

If you fix some bad defaults, Cura will support this just fine with normal automatic support generation (regular or tree).

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Any autogenerated support requires spacing in order to be removable. That spacing allows these types of features to settle which will cause distortions in the print. So you can't reliably use traditional supports

@daliasprints9798

Жыл бұрын

@@slant3d I think I'm understanding what you're saying. You can do zero spacing with multi material and related methods, but of course that has its own issues. I've been meaning to experiment with zero vertical spacing using reduced flow and increased line spacing on support interface layers.

What software is used to add these supports?

Just need those tables from pizza boxes upside down would do the job and easy to build with 2 cilinders and a duplicate of one of them

Where do I download these supports?

Which slicer are you using?

@supergiantbubbles

Жыл бұрын

It's an older version of Simplify3d

I feel like not using dated software would help.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Aut generated supports have to be removable. The space created by making a support removable can lead to failure of these type of features. The software has nothing to do it with. It is the mechanics.

its a great idea but its also great idea to add interface support mateial to get cleaner results.

Did you close your Patreon page? I get a 'Bad Gateway' error from the link for the stls in the description and I can't find you by searching on Patreon

@slant3d

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately we are no longer on Patreon, but we are working on getting a site set up for all our files. Should be done very soon and we will make sure to update you all when it is live.

NOT FREE!!!Have to Join to download!!!

Great idea, I will use this. The video would be much better without the random background clicking the entire time.

Did you intend to discontinue the free STLs? The post is locked until you become a member

This channel is absolute gold. Y'all should have 100x more subs

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Appreciate it.

This is a great idea, but I wouldn't call this a thumbtack. I'd call it a "kiss", since it looks like a Hearshy's Kiss to me. Could call this "Kissing".

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

BTW. Thanks for watching. The Team loves your stuff.

why would you place all those supports yourself and not use autosupports? whats the benefit here?

theyre not free STL's theyre 3 bucks each

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I just print that part separately and glue them together after....... easy fix.

this is literaly tree supports

Or you could just us a modern slicer.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

Has nothing to do with the slicer. Regular support has to be spaced from the part. That spacing causes the error.

@riffraff60

Жыл бұрын

@@slant3d You can have zero spacing and still have easily removable supports.

@slant3d

Жыл бұрын

You just described a paradox

@riffraff60

Жыл бұрын

@@slant3d nope, it's easy to do.

Dude - either take down the video or make the files available FOR FREE.

Not free