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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Richard Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Richard Salinas

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
3D Printing with RepRap Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Support options with Skeinforge


In this recipe, we're going to examine some support options in Skeinforge that will adjust the physical contact of the support material to the model. This is important for tuning a profile that will provide not only a good support but also a support material that can be easily removed.

Getting ready

You'll need the jellyfish model.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Select the Raft plugin. Scroll down the page to the bottom section Support At Support Material Choice and set it to Everywhere.

  2. Make sure that you keep Support Cross Hatch deactivated.

  3. We'll test the default support values now. Save the G-code and print the model.

  4. Under the Interface heading, go to Interface Density Infill (ratio). Change the default value 0.5 to 0.1. Slice and save the G-code.

  5. Print the model.

How it works...

In order to have support material that works successfully, we need to consider the following two primary factors:

  • First, we need a support structure that adequately provides...