Reply To: Supports needed in Slicer or not?

[Geoffrey ORBAN]

Hello Porter,

Thanks for your replies.

No worries, I’m in the same situation. I haven’t got any notification here following your reply, there must be an issue…

Regarding 1: “I had to model a few different holes and different-sized pegs” → That’s exactly what I did at the end. And by doing this, I figured out that a difference of 0.4 mm was needed to be able to assemble the different parts.

Regarding 2: “Did the knotting start to occur when the cannons became hollow?” → Yes, I think or that could be because of a lack of adhesion. Because after the first little tank, I printed a bigger one, and I still had issue with the canons. That time I’m 100M sure it was because of it, because I saw the canons falling during the printing… I saw I could set up a Brim in Cura, and it helped for the next printing attempt.

Regarding 3: “Do you have any screenshots” → Nope, I don’t have any screenshots to share, not anymore. But, when doing the manifold, some vertices were collapsing, merging with others. And that destroyed the general shape. A bit like if you have selected by mistake too many vertices and had applied a merge them all. That’s what gave me there was somewhat a lack of control.

 “I have been able to design and print models that were within a fraction of a mm precision and work as intended, all within Blender.”

→ I’m happy to read it, I prefer to stick with Blender if I can! That puts my mind at ease 😀

At least, now, I know that this process is quite common and normal.