Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 08, 2013 06:46PM |
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Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 08, 2013 10:39PM |
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tmorris9
Gcode is easy to edit. You could do 2 slices, one with support, one without and then copy the layers you want to replace, find the place in the other code and paste over the same layers. You can edit gcode in many programs including text editors and Repetier host.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 09, 2013 10:34PM |
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Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 10, 2013 09:36AM |
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Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 10, 2013 11:03AM |
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swoozle
In the last version the option to force support up to a certain layer (and then turn it off) actually worked and did exactly what you want.
Unfortunately in the RC it appears to be broken. I can only get support by turning it on completely.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 11, 2013 03:49PM |
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swoozle
In the last version the option to force support up to a certain layer (and then turn it off) actually worked and did exactly what you want.
Unfortunately in the RC it appears to be broken. I can only get support by turning it on completely.
I have been told the support material is very buggy in the last release. I had a different issue, not being able to change overhang angle. All overhang values gave the same results. I tried 90, 60, 35, 0.... it seems the support material needs some work.
What version were you able to set the height limit for support? I may roll back versions to test it out.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 14, 2013 12:23PM |
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Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 16, 2013 03:23PM |
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Aberrant
Sorry for the delayed reply, I just got around to looking at the version I am using, and it happens to be the 0.9.10b. However I do not see the option for stopping the support generation at a certain height. Are you talking about unchecking the "Generate Support Material" box? And then using the "Enforce Support For The First: __ Layers" instead of generating support material by threshold?
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 18, 2013 02:33AM |
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Aberrant
Sorry for the delayed reply, I just got around to looking at the version I am using, and it happens to be the 0.9.10b. However I do not see the option for stopping the support generation at a certain height. Are you talking about unchecking the "Generate Support Material" box? And then using the "Enforce Support For The First: __ Layers" instead of generating support material by threshold?
If you leave "generate support" unchecked and check "enforce support", support is created for only the number of layers you input.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 23, 2013 12:13PM |
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swoozle
If you leave "generate support" unchecked and check "enforce support", support is created for only the number of layers you input.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 23, 2013 10:31PM |
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tmorris9
Well I have wondered this myself. In Repetier it shows each layer as a line number in light or dark green. So for instance layer 1 is all light green, layer 2 is all dark green then layer three is light, 4 is dark and so on. Also in repetier if you select lines of gcode in a layer it shows up on the display as yellow highlighted lines. It still takes a little work to get it right but this sure helps.
Also at the top of each layer you can see the "Z" movement like this:
G1 Z0.600 F18000.000
Notice the Z, it only shows up when the layer changes height. So I guess in a text program you could search for and count the "Z" to know the layer #.
Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 24, 2013 08:34PM |
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Re: Stop Support Material At Certain Height? December 24, 2013 09:32PM |
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