> Slic3r has an option for support material, which is a honeycomb shaped
fill
that easily breaks away. It isn't perfect, but you don't need a second
extruder to print a lot of hanging material.

I'd like to learn more about it. Thanks.



On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfisc...@hackerbots.net>wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 17:23:15 David Morley wrote:
> > Does the 3D printer have just one extruder? If so, I'll need an upgrade
> to
> > 2 extruders so I can print sacrificial support for my shapes. The printer
> > is pretty limited now, in the kinds of shapes that can be printed.
> >
>
> Slic3r has an option for support material, which is a honeycomb shaped fill
> that easily breaks away. It isn't perfect, but you don't need a second
> extruder to print a lot of hanging material.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Torrie Fischer
> >
> > <tdfisc...@hackerbots.net>wrote:
> > > If you had $150 and one month, what would you build at SYNHAK?
> > >
> > > We've got a large sum of money. More might be on its way. What if we
> > > allocated
> > > $5400 of it over three years and gave it every month to hackers with
> great
> > > ideas? I want to know what people would use it for. $150 can buy a lot
> and
> > > would drive innovation and creativity in the community.
> > >
> > > To preempt any debbie downers: Yes, I'll do the legwork to make sure we
> > > comply
> > > with any tax rules, legal hurdles, blah blah blah.
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