Istruggling to print the rear footrest on my Bambu A1. It seems like it needs supports but when it prints there are none . Is the slicer file setup with supports?
if you find a file needs supports you can load it in a computer in Bambi studio, go to the support tab and enable supports. Tree supports work great with a z distance of .25-.28.
Also alternatively you can change the print orientation to print on its side or end so supports arn’t required. They may require a brim if reoriented.
This is not make good official advice but just from a seasoned printer. This will Not affect the strength or quality of the file print
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Good suggestions! I may also try drying my PETG as that may be contributing to my problems.
Hi there,
The file I downloaded didn’t have supports configured as well for this plate. I wasn’t paying attention so it went through the whole plate.
However, despite of these two edges, the rest was really smooth, so I’ll sure keep this part! 
Cheers,
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Had the same issue. I did find a way to get this to work. For whatever reason supports would not turn on for me on this one plate. Was not even able to add manual supports. I ended up saving the file as “footrest”, deleted all plates except for the footrest plate and hit saved again. I then opened up a new project and imported the file into the plate. I first clicked on the object and then clicked the enable support box. From there, supports worked for me. I did check all settings to make sure everything imported correctly and they did. I am now able to print with no issue and it has the supports.
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Thanks for sharing SWright! I have been having the same issue… will give that a try.
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This file doesn’t really need support but I’m fine with it! To turn them on, click on the in the object in Bambu and under ‘object’ settings find support and turn it on
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I’m having similar issues. I’m reprinting with support now. Just adding to the thread to show it’s not an isolated issue
Yes, I’ve painted support to both ends of both of the footrest parts. That looks like the back section. You can’t really see that part. You can most likely clean that up.
I’m having problems even with manual supports. Filament has been dried a 65C for 8 hours. Max volumetric flow is 20mm^3/s.
I even tried a raft. It was better, but still had issues.
Might need to slow down the print speed?
Mine came out “ok”. I might experiment with it and see what can be done to make it perfect or it just might need a part redesign.
I messed around with the printer settings and I found that while slowing down, specifically bridges, helped, it was not the full answer. I’m use Orcaslicer on 0.4n and I noticed that there was a gap between the internal bridge and the overhang in layers 3-9. I found a setting called Extra perimeters on overhangs (Quality → Overhangs), and the results were much better. Not perfect, but acceptable. This is definitely a slicer-specific settings issue. The file from Makerworld when sliced in Bambu studio shows perfect coverage without gaps.
Can someone more familiar with Orca than me please chime in and let me know if there is a better solution?
Bambu Studio:
Orca Default: gap between light blue and dark blue
Extra perimeters:
Results: Much better. Not perfect, but acceptable.
I was watching my first layers on my qidi plus 4, funny enough bambu studio does not give a warning about floating areas (on my p1s) but qidistudio(orca) does. Tried printing without the supports and could see the overhang wouldn’t come out too clean. Opted to cancel the print and add supports, i think its worth adding for this overhang(even if you slow down the print speed) and then came here to see if i was the only one seeing the issue.
This is with supports. The issue is there are still gaps in the gcode when sliced with my particular version of Orca (2.3.2)
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