Gene, There about many settings in Cura for supports. You can waste tons of time and plastic experimenting or just use a pair of needle-nose pliers and pull it off as you did.
The best fix is to get a second extruder on the printer and load it with water-soluble filament and print support with that. Then dunk the part in water. But this at least doubles the price of the printer On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:17 PM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > And had a hell of a time removing the internal supports, which probably > out-weigh the gear, digging it out about 1/4" at a time until I was able > to actually get a grip on the edge, at which time the last half of it > popped right out in one piece, clean as a whistle. But it seems like > there ought to be a way to pop it all out in one piece as opposed to a > couple hours work with a miniature back hoe in the form of the e. tech's > ever present 5" flush cutters. Looks good, meshes well and walks around > the ring gear like it should. 2nd one building, be done around a late > dinner time tonight as its an 18+ hour job. Don't know if theres enough > PLA on that spool for 3 of them. With all the support structure it uses > a lot of PLA. Cura estimates it but I've forgotten now. > > But is there a support removal tool that isn't radioactive? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
