MeshMixer Support Material?

[sgraber]

Anyone ever use MeshMixer's support material to support a print? I'm growing increasingly frustrated with Slic3r's support material as it takes forever and a day to print!  :/  What's your experience with it?

[jimustanguitar]

CraftWare does cool things for support. It lets you manually draw in where you want it.

Not exactly the answer you were looking for, but an alternative at least.

[sgraber]

I'm not familiar with it. I'll give CraftWare (www.craftunique.com/craftware) a shot and see how it goes.

[sgraber]

BTW have you printed gcode from CraftWare yet?

[jimustanguitar]

I haven't... I just installed it and oogled at the GUI and features

[ZionPhil]

Yes. I have experience with MeshMixer support. It allows an amazing amount of control you can click to where you want it and don't want it. The only caveat is that you export the model then slice with another program, then support is not really "support", it's part of the model so it a little more difficult to remove. If you have a Makerbot or one of their supported printers you can pick you can try printing directly to that.

Cool thing is MeshMixer 2.7 just came out today and it has some amazing new features. meshmixer.com/download.html

- New Layout/Packing Tool for 3D print bed layout
- New Deviation Tool analyzing differences between meshes
- New Clearance Tool for verifying tolerances
- Additional modes in Reduce Tool (triangle count, max deviation)
- Improvements to Support Structure Generation (better DLP/SLA preset, horizontal bars, …)
- Boolean options when dropping Solid Parts
- Snapping options in Measure Tool
- Print Bed now visible in Modeling View
- Improved support for lower-end graphics hardware

[bvandiepenbos]

yah baby! Meshmixer is awesome.
I have used it's support and it works great. best I have tried and you have full control of selectively adding/removing supports. I export model back out with supports and slice in Slic3r or Cura.
That is how I printed that Sea Serpent.

I dl MM 2.7 today and am looking forward to trying the new features.

I have played with Craftware also, it does interactive supports also. Only printed a few things with it's slice. seemed ok. really nice interface.

[jimustanguitar]

Sounds like a MeshMixer demo is in order on Thursday sounds pretty neat.