Hello, first, great work on simplify3d. Amazing program. I'm working on a product that mounts on a camera's hot shoe. Its basically just a case with a camera hotshoe mount on the bottom. Because of some internals, I need to print it with the hotshoe on the build plate. My issue is that I can either make supports that don't create a good base for the rest of the case, or supports that I can't remove. I've been testing printing with a few different materials, one of which is Talmun's Alloy 905. I've seen in a few places where if you print it a bit cold, it will print fine, but will have poor layer adhesion. (Something I believe is common in quite a few materials) Would it be possible to add a feature to simplify3d where I could change the layer temperature for the last layer in the supports. It would have to pause to let it cool for example, then pause again when it started back up.
Thanks!
Keep up the good work.
- Ryan
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CompoundCarl
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Re: Change temperature for supports
I've tried this before on some of my printers. Unfortunately, it's usually not a good idea to be constantly changing the temperature of your extruders. Most have large overshoot and very long settling times, so when you make a change, even if it's only 5 degrees, the temperature may fluctuate wildly for a few seconds before things stabilize again. From my testing, that was very bad for print quality.
