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Feature idea: Detect possible bridges and not use support material!

Posted by KreAture 
Feature idea: Detect possible bridges and not use support material!
January 10, 2014 07:46AM
The support material now detects overhangs based on angles.
If it could also see if the area to be supported is itself supported and the stretches are within some settable parameter, it could decide to not use support material within simple cutouts/holes but still have it enabled for demanding build overhangs in free-space and such.

Not sure if this is simple to do, but I know slic3r already detects bridges so this could probably combine with that.
Re: Feature idea: Detect possible bridges and not use support material!
January 25, 2014 04:47PM
Yeah, that's in the TODO. I need to implement an algorithm for detecting successful bridges.
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