I found that bumping up support layers to 3 and changing to rectilinear is making removal a lot easier and leaving a much cleaner surface.
I also tried messing with z distance for support and it messed up a few prints, but the layer count change hasn’t had any negative effects.
Yes that does help a ton. I use the same settings, but I do change the Z distance. .28 for a .4mm nozzle and .35 for a .6mm nozzle has been working real well for me.
Just got my X2D and going to try running PLA for support interface and see how that does. Printing a riser for it now and the support interface makes the prints look like they never had supports!
This chute is working great for me, nice and clean.
Thank you for the tips, I will make these changes on the next parts and see how it goes.
It’s the interface pattern you want to change to rectilinear not the base pattern. Other than that your settings look good. I also change the “Support/object first layer gap” to .5 That keeps the brim of the support from sticking to the actual part
Thanks for the tips here. I sat down today and removed all supports from the parts and those that I printed prior to these settings were not only more difficult to remove, but left a unsmooth surface. On the revised parts, everything just pops right off and looks great underneath. I definitely would suggest these settings get applied to the master profile on MakerWorld.
Good to hear! Glad it helped! I have now been playing with support material (PLA) on the X2D since it has the second extruder and that is even better lol.
