Attempting to print hovering part without support

[faye]

Hi,

I am a new user and I have been amazed by what has "just worked" out of the box. Today I tried to print a toy "my little pony" and the tail was unsupported. Unfortunately this time I didn't run a preview to see this. Is there any way that the code could detect the hovering part (physics?) and put support where it is needed? There is no way that this could have been printable with an FFF process without support on any machine is there?

[jimc]

unfortunately for such a print you will need support. s3d can auto-generate the support but you need to be sure the feature is turned on in your process

[faye]

It was turned on, there were supports elsewhere on the model. You can see the green column on the right, that was support material. I found out how to add support manually, but this didn't seem to be as easy to remove as the default support.

[BaudR8]

It was turned on, there were supports elsewhere on the model. You can see the green column on the right, that was support material. I found out how to add support manually, but this didn't seem to be as easy to remove as the default support.

make your pillar resolution 1 and it should generate more support structures. If the areas are too fine even for 1mm pillar resolution, try scaling the model up, for example, 2X, generate support structures, and then scale the model back down.