Interesting "hack" for printing above the bed

[Ray Price]

This may be old-hat for some of the old-timers, but I found this hack for slicing/printing (in Bambu Studio, maybe others support it as well).

The focus is on improving print quality by combining two halves of a model and printing upright, as opposed to printing each half flat on the bed.

I was less interested in that part, and more interested in how once he had the combined part, he was able to raise the model completely off the bed, and print, basically with all supports on the bed.

If anyone has an alternative, would love to hear it.  I may have to do something like this for an upcoming project printing a model for my son's architecture project.

https://youtu.be/iD-XfbKjMXA?si=1Jq1BkGgHLITGUbC

[Bryan Eckert]

Nope that's the way to do it as far as I know, and that's how I've done it in the past. I probably wouldn't have stuck the cube so far away.

Also note, that model he printed will look best in that orientation for 2 reasons - the front of it is curved, and it's printed in silk. You can see that in the reflection as he rotates both of them.

Interesting it was already split, it's better to have a solid model and split it in the slicer as then you can easily add connectors to get everything lined up and glue easy.

[Ray Price]

Yeah, the quality of the upright print was really impressive.  

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[Bryan Eckert]

Surprised that printing it on the H2C he didn't use full contact supports with PETG

[Ed Street]

Most likely, he may not know how to do them, or it's too much work."

[Ray Price]

Getting into a side bar / distraction about optimizing support material wasn't part of the goal.  

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[Kurt Gluck]

There is a setting in Prusaslicer that makes sure that your differing extruders in the same object (different parts) have full walls. 

This is how I did custom full contact supports for the american girl doll bed. 

Kurt-A

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

To print this with full contact support would be tricky since it needs to be held securely. I also note that the Toober never bothered to show the marring on the undersides which I can see if I look carefully.. I see defects in the object when the light reflects off the face.

[Jody Harris]

To be honest, though, I think that the marred undersides are much preferable to the line stacking on the flat print.

-j

Think carefully

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