Simplify3D User Forum

Hi guys,

As a newbie into 3d printing, I got myself a FFCP and have been learning to print with Makerware. It was a huge learning curve to tweak the custom profiles but I kind of made it after a month of 10 hrs+ printing time everyday.

Recently I start moving on to printing bigger and more complicated objects. Makerware is okay but the support is so stuck to the print and I spent hours still could not remove all little pieces.

Read a lot of review and finally bought S3D last night for its better support formation. I know it takes time for me to use it as handy as Makerware, and I tried to change all setting as close as how I got good result with Makerware, still, there is quite apparent difference and Im clueless if I set the whole thing wrong.

For example, the ghosty on the left is from Makerware and it has a more unified surface and good layer adhesion. The mid and right ones are from S3D. The mid one has the setting set closer to Makerware but you can still see the outlines are not so well bound. I also cannot explain about the colour since they are all print with 205 deg 0.2 height (PLA), Printing speed 90mm/s, outline 30mm/s.

It's a little hard to tell much from your pictures, but my first recommendation would be to try a print with the stock unchanged profile that S3D provides for your printer. Take a picture of that and then it will be easier to give advice. Plus that's probably a much better starting point. S3D and MW are very different programs, so matching every setting is not going to give the same results.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. Will do that again and upload the pics.