antimix
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Supports not added for some part details

Hello,

I have a rectangular part like a frame with six upper rectangles as T on the sides.
First time I printed it, I printed with supports enabled, and S3D made a gorgeous job.

Then I modified the part on the cad adding a small central hole on two of the T.
When I reloaded the object in S3D I discovered that he did not built the supports under the T with holes. Of course they can't be printed without support, but for a strange reason S3D was not able to understand that was required a support.
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You can see highlighted in yellow the zones where S3D did not created the support.

The only thing in my mind is that due to the hole, the "exposed" surface was lower than a "x" and S3D simply ignored. I had to add the support manually to print the part.

- This is certainly a bug. Is there any %Of settings that I can change to enable S3D to correctly see that that section requires supports ?

Regards
rrdavis
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Re: Supports not added for some part details

Looks like your support pillar resolution is too large. Try reducing that to 1mm.
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dkightley
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Re: Supports not added for some part details

....and increase your Support Infill Percentage...and I#d add a single layer of dense support at 100%.
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antimix
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Re: Supports not added for some part details

dkightley wrote: Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:37 am ....and increase your Support Infill Percentage...and I#d add a single layer of dense support at 100%.
Hi,
YES... it solves the problems.

I am learning how all those parameters work :D

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