Nice guide, very clear and concise! My tip for Photon users is to check the files with the Photon File Viewer after supporting. This helps to catch any remaining islands and to fix errors that can happen during the slicing.
I definitely need to watch this video a few more times and practice this more. I keep finding files I want to print that are unsupported files. And then I try to blunder my way through getting them supported and printed.
That's been part of my problem lately. Just finding some extra time to try stuff and practice. I'd love to learn 3D modeling too. Wish I could find a class local to me that I could afford and had the time to attend it.
@@looselycollected7505 I'm with you on that. I want to practice my 3D modeling skills more. It would be cool to be able to just sculpt whatever bit you're missing.
is it such a bad idea to use auto support?? and can I just ship with auto supported files for commercial stl and call it a day, would the customers prefer manually design support?? cause the way I see it, auto is no fuzz, and manual, you would need to test print upon test print to do it right....
I wouldn't say it's a bad idea! I just personally have had mixed results with auto supports. Sometimes I'll start with auto supports and then go back in and manually adjust things (make the supports heavier on the feet/load bearing areas, and add supports where auto may have missed some). If I were selling STLs I'd include both an unsupported and supported folder of files! BUT with that all said-- test prints are the only way to really make sure your supports work (auto or not). With experience you'll begin to recognize where supports may fail. I can tell you as a consumer, It's frustrating purchasing an stl file that has supports that fail. I hope that answers your question! Let me know if you have any more questions!
I am very new at this; but just using only light Auto Supports has generally given me very good results, where I get a problem extremely rarely. Is it okay to just keep using auto supports? I sometimes also add a few light supports, I've learned that it's really important to add them to feet if you're making a small animal like a pig or capybara, but I honestly have no idea what I'm doing.
If it works for you it is 100% fine! I think it is a good idea to be able to do it without auto supports-- if only for understanding what might go wrong and correct where auto supports might have went wrong. I found that making my own supports often leads to fewer pock marks and makes removing supports less difficult (I typically place fewer supports than auto supports generates).
SAVE SAVE SAVE! Chitubox crashes all the time. All the time. No joke. It's gotten better in recent editions but SAVE SAVE SAVE. Every time you've made a change that you wouldn't like to lose, SAVE SAVE SAVE. Also, unless you have a WhamBam and are printing directly on the bed, I recommend you add auto supports. This way Chitubox will create a pad with flared edges, to make it easier to pry off the bed with your scraper. Then delete whatever auto supports don't make sense and start manually supporting the model. And yeah, check out 3d Printing Pro's tutorials.
