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Printing a heavier support for PVA

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:55 pm
by guitartoys
Hi,

Pretty new user, happy thus far.

I have a question regarding something that seems counter intuitive, I need to make the support structures heavier.

I'm printing PVA for support, and one a couple of prints I've got a tall narrow piece, which needs this small support structure. And it keeps breaking loose, or breaking in the middle of the print due to it being too fragile.

So do I just turn dense support laywers on? Change the Dense Infill Precentate?

Just a little help.

Thanks.

Re: Printing a heavier support for PVA

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:27 pm
by jimc
well the dense support layers ae only the the few that you set to interface with the bottom of the print. if you need the infill stronger then you need to bump up the support infill %.

Re: Printing a heavier support for PVA

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:03 pm
by guitartoys
Thank you, I just needed to cancel the pint about 60mm into a 1420mm print. I'll increase the infill.

Thanks.