> Now if I could reduce the support fill in > the horizontal bolt holes... Those are hard to clean out. 50% is too > solid.
You can do this in Cura. On the left side, after you load and select and STL object are some icons that allow you to modify the print properties if PARTS of objects. You can suppress supports or change the fill perscent of skin of some part of the object. So you can have support under a roof but not in a hole. It is tedious and time-consuming to set this up but maybe less so of you really need it. Some things are really good to do, like making a part stronger ONLY where it needs to be stronger and not wasting plastic and print time on other areas of the part. One way to use this is to make the normal part, drag/drop it onto Cura's build platform. Then make a second part and drag it onto the first part and make then OVERLAP and occupy the same space. Normal physical objects can't overlap but you set the second object o "suppress support" and the volume occupied by the support suppression object kills supports inside (say) blind threaded holes. Play with the icons on the left and you will figure it out given enough time (likely after some hours) So you use your CAD system to make and object that fills the volume of space where support is to be very light or none at all, You overlap that with the actual object and assign each different settings. You can make this as complex as you like. I use it for things like making the infill higher near a bolt-hole. Some times I use this just for the side effects -- Cura makes a wall between sections with different properties and I just want the interior wall to stiffen the part. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
