On Thursday 04 June 2020 17:11:49 Chris Albertson wrote: > If you have not enabled supports and are printing an object like a > pulley you WILL have a total mess. 3D printer need a surface and an > part of the part that overhangs with just air onder it will not print > well as the hot plastic will just fall out the nozzle. > > But that cross hatch pattern looks like support base so it must be > enabled. You can enable support either "from the baseplate up" or > "everywhere" and you need "everywhere" as at to support the top > flange. > > Yes, removing support is a PIA because on a pulley the teeth will be > completely 100% inside a ring of support material. > > For a beginner you picked a hard project. Most people would start by > printing a one-inch cube or a 1/2 inch flat washer. Pulleys have > need of support and have printed threads for the set screw. Both as > "intermediate level" skills. Horizontal threads always have > support inside that needs pin punch (hex key) to remove > > I had to modify the pulley design so it could print with minimal > support. Take all the ridges off the outside, make the flange thicker > and radius the inside of the flange > > It is also possible to control the support density and pattern. > > Getting all this right nly tak seconds if you know to do it. I start > in Fusion and vew thepart from al sides to see if it can be better > designed to reduce the need for support. Then in Cura I try a few > suport techniques and use preview to see where it is going to go. If > it looks bad, then back to Fusion to change an angle or whatever. > This is why engineers like really fast workstatins as design is > iterative. > > I'll look at a file if you can e-mail it. > Which file, the gcode that was copied to the printer? or ??
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