Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Better support setting

When doing overhang printing, support material is very important. I found out a setting which is very good support setting for my TOM, so I just record it down for my own reference.





Interface infill density (ratio): 0.4 (0.3-0.7)’
Interface Layer Thickness over Layer Thickness: 1.2 ( also 0.7)
Support Cross Hatch: No.
Support Flow Rate over Operating Flow Rate (ratio): 0.7 (0.4-0.7)
Support Gap over Perimeter Extrusion Width (ratio): 0.005
Support Material Choice: Everywhere Support Minimum Angle (degrees): 35.0



you can go to the site to see the original post.

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/06/27/makerbot-microtip-using-the-support-features-in-skeinforges-raft-tool/