Ideal settings for a more friendly support material

From my experience, Slic3r's support material adheres to the printed parts much too well and always returned unpleasing results.

Does anyone have any pointers for producing cleaner support/part bonds that don’t leave such harsh artifacts on the part being printed? Specifically I'm looking for ideal settings related to extrusion width, speed, pattern/spacing, etc. I'm using a RepRapPro Huxley with 0.3mm nozzle and Slicer 0.9.7.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2012 11:54PM by Physics_Dude.

FWIW I've never found any slicer that will produce easily removable support if you print in PLA.
In ABS it's relatively easy to remove support material.

Kisslicer seems to produce much better support material. It's also a lot quicker than slic3r. Give it ago.

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Using ABSPrusa Mendel Zaphod with Pronterface and slic3r 1.3.0. Printing well with 3mm PLA and ABS through 2 x J Head Mk IV b and Wade Geared Exruders. Controlled using RAMPS1.4 board running Marlin_v1.1.9

0.9.7 produces support material that is much easier to remove than previous versions. The final layer of the support material is done at less than the full layer height, making it break away easier.

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0.9.7 produces support material that is much easier to remove than previous versions.

Eh, not from my experience, but then again, I haven’t toyed around with much of the settings responsible for support material.

Any thoughts on how adjusting support material extrusion width would help? What about pattern spacing, or speed?