Support material in 3D printing lets us defy gravity, but it does eat up additional filament and add time to the print. My patrons requested a guide on tuning support material settings in the slicer, so this video covers the most important parameters across a range of slicers, as well as ways to apply support more efficiently.

0:00 Introduction

0:40 What is support material and when/why is it needed?
Construction scaffolding by Fons Heijnsbroek: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

2:38 Test Model
Support Test by Fotmers: https://www.printables.com/model/9690...

3:37 Traditional support material

4:01 Support material components

5:10 Slicer settings and tuning
Overhang torture test: https://www.printables.com/model/1801...

13:05 Tree/ organic support material
Vines Climb Old Building in Baku by Peretz Partensky: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... licensed CCSA2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
PrusaSlicer releases: https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlice...
Earth Dragon by Alex: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/...

15:43 Efficient use of support material

17:25 Multi material support

18:54 Conclusion
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