Can I add a brim to a MakerBot print

[Chris Spurgeon]

I feel I could solve a lot of my warpage problem if I could just add a brim to my prints. Adding a brim is dead easy with slic3r, but I'll be damned if I can find any setting to do it with Makerbot's software. Is it even possible?

Chris Spurgeon

Here's a quick page on brims... https://www.simplify3d.com/support/tutorials/rafts-skirts-and-brims/

(ignore a post I made a minute or so before this one. I wrote "raft" when I meant to write "brim"!

[Ryan Carlyle]

Hard way is adding a brim-shaped STL file to your print. Like a calibration box from the example list, scaled down in Z to one layer thick. (Although I don't recall what Makerbot's current behavior is for overlapping models. Version-specific I think.)

[Chris Craft]

Chris,

I wholeheartedly agree. The quick nozzle purge that the MB software does is usually insufficient. 

Here's my dumb question for you, since you linked the article on Simplify3D, why not use that to print? S3D is Makerbot compatible, right? You have got me thinking about this.

Chris

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[Chris Spurgeon]

I just got my MakerBot (a used Replicator 2) so I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of setting up different slicing software for correct results on the MakerBot. But that may be in my future.

Chris

[Eric Pavey]

I switched to S3D on my Rep1 & rep2x, never looked back (although I do miss the hexagonal infill...).

It does a great job with brims to keep large parts stuck down,

[Lassi Kinnunen]

what I'm doing for abs prints now(on non mbi) is using tinkercad to just place manual anchor circles. quite simple and better than auto brim in slic3r.

why? well, slic3r and others do concentric for brim and it's everywhere around the object and you usually just need it in the corners AND non concentric infill for the anchor circles works better for me, it has more strength for some reason.

you could use any mesh edit package to do it.. but tinkercad is the simplest way to do it for me, and it handles even high poly models surprisingly well.

-lassi

[Bryon Miller]

I use this option in simplify 3D, I have it set at 4mm offset.  Depending on how you did your design, Ryan's suggestion should be easy (The hard way), simply set an offset of 4mm to the outermost line, then one more at 4.6mm and extrude that up by .4mm.  That works for me using Solidworks.  I'm sure there are similar functions in all design software.

On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:35:10 AM UTC-7, Chris Craft wrote: