STOP Using Tree Supports

3D printing can be a difficult process, especially when it comes to dealing with supports. Pointed "icicle" overhangs can be a major problem when using auto-generated supports within a slicing software. In this tutorial, we'll teach you a simple design trick that can drastically improve the printability of these overhangs. This tutorial is perfect for beginners and experienced 3D modelers alike. By using this easy technique, you'll be able to improve your 3D printing experience, save time and materials, and make your models look even better.

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[Nishandh_Mayiladan]

Current slicers can add a lot many types of supports. Even the tree implementaion is now super good and further tweakable.

[drewmiller]

This looks like the perfect use case of tree supports

[willow]

This guy really impressive he build a time machine and is posting his 3D printing tips from 2014. Can't wait till he tells us about blue painters tape.

[SummonerGER]

0:49 Looking at the rest of the beak from upside down, there seems to be more issues than just the tip of the beak

[tacmonkey]

In response to the title: No.

But the method explained is a good tip for more difficult situations.

[reeceytaylor]

It's almost 3am and I'm watching this.

I don't even have a 3d printer.

[thebillyd]

For everyone suggesting printing upside down, that would be a lot is surface area on the support interface. Normally you want the supports touching as little of the print as possible and touching parts you won't see. Having the whole top of the head supported leads to a lot of visual flaws all over what's meant to be a decorative piece.

[The_Brickishaw]

"Upside down icicles"

Do icicles hang upward where you're from?

[nathansixteen]

Yeah, based on that print quality, you got bigger issues than tree support

[richiehoyt]

Well, I've never done any 3D printing, I've never _seen_ anybody 3D printing (irl), I've barely even seen it being done online; and obviously this video isn't for me - but finally I've gotten a 'kinda - sorta' answer to how overhangs/recurved pieces, etc, etc. are done. Mental itch scratched (mostly scratched), at last!

[Mobin]

That seems more like an issue with the slicers...

[hullinstruments]

Holy cow it's super weird to see that design as an adult. My dad taught me how to make silicone molds and reproduce old carvings and stuff starting at a super young age. I remember bugging him and bugging him for some of his reproduction handguns and so he started teaching me when I was like six or seven years old. I'm in my mid 30s now and I haven't seen that sculpture in nearly 25 years. But it used to be one of his most popular and requested castings. He made molds of all kinds of stuff and practice taxidermy for nearly 60 years. Mounted fish today and is nearly 81 matter of fact.

But his specialty for a long time in the '80s and '90s was reproducing carvings for himself, other folks ect.... and in particular native American art and artifacts. So tons and tons and tons of bear claws, bald eagle talons, to s of sculpture and carving type stuff. Usually taken from some genuine artifact on loan from a big-time collector or museum. Sometimes even cast and reproduced on site at the museum itself. I distinctly remember a few pieces and friends in particular who claimed that he was "the only white man that would ever touch some of that stuff". And it was only very briefly in some instances and only so the history could be preserved and spread more widely. To educate those outside of the tribal umbrella. Even though we're common north Georgia rednecks... Dad always took that stuff super seriously and respectfully. Teaching me at a super young age that even though he was interested in native American stuff and the civil war... Well let's just say he was under no delusions of how all of that stuff really went down. And our part in it. Hell he gave me my first name after general Grant, even though he was a huge civil war buff and super interested in the CSA in particular. He knew who the good guys and bad guys really were. Which is sadly rare in our parts these days.

It was super cool growing up around that stuff, getting to go to different reservations and ceremonies ( pow wows as us white folks called them) and meet a lot of folks who genuinely didn't see a lot of white people or interact with them regularly. I remember getting to go down into the basement of this really awesome museum, it was underground and it was just this heaven of taxidermy specimens, works in progress, and tons and tons of genuine native American stuff on loan to the museum. That was just one many instances where I got to see all kinds of crazy things used for ceremony, a real headdress full of bald eagle feathers and incredible hand carved beads, pipes, ect. I remember dad's friend who was the curator... Telling me that a lot of that bald eagle stuff, would be A huge string of federal offenses if in the possession of ANYONE... With the only exception being native American ceremonial stuff. He would get bald eagles, owls, all kinds of raptors...and things all the time that were either hit by cars or what not... For their museum collections and displays. Dude was a worker of magic seriously. One of the only times I ever saw my dad in awe of someone else's skill at taxidermy and preservation/reproduction

It was just incredible getting to see and be around that stuff regularly. I don't mean to rain belong about it A lot of these memories just came flooding back when I saw that eagle

Dad still makes molds and messes around with that stuff just for fun mostly these days. Back then he did all kinds of crazy and cool reproductions. Not only tons of native American stuff, but also tons of civil war belt buckles buttons and things like that. I don't remember why he had an eagle designed that so similar to your sculpture in this video. I can't remember where he came across it or why he was reproducing it so often. I think it was something to do with a really rare civil war artifact. Maybe something on a saber, possibly a piece of artwork done by a soldier. (Similar to trench artwork and stuff like that) I know there was a breast plate or belt buckle with a flat design that was very similar to this. I actually bought one for my collection years and years ago. And was actually on a hunting party when someone dug one up while relic hunting in Virginia. I was green with envy... But then I found a Virginia button which was one of the rarest civil war relics I ever dug over 25 years of hunting regularly. Then everybody else was green with jealousy that day! 😂 Especially considering they had all walk right over at half a dozen times before I got there.



I don't remember why but he had an eagle design very similar if not almost identical to this. And it was one of his most requested designs for people to buy replicas. In use for reproduction of artifacts... And sometimes a lot of reenactments and stuff like that. He has incredible skill at molding and casting. He's not the best out there or anything but his skill is so wide-ranging. Able to nearly fall asleep reproduce stone, bone, ivory, wood, ect...And other mediums using silicon molds and a wide range of black magic chicanery. End of course a lot of experimental or poorly cast pieces would end up all over my room as a kid. As subjects for painting, trading with kids at school, all kinds of stuff. Damn I haven't talked about that stuff in a long long time

[alfonsodehesa]

You are such a ressource. Just when I think I am highly advanced in 3D printing you always surprise with incredibly amazing tips that I actually did not know about.

[overcastingdays]

It makes it look like the eagles beak has mites…

[hubertcumberdale]

I’ve been blessed with slicing software that does this automatically

[giovanni]

you just wasted 100g of plastic for no reason

[sramey]

There's add ons for more support shapes that can be selected from in settings to designated the perfect support structure without needing to add another object entity

[SuperVolkan]

best filament saver method is before slice, add sla supports on thin printing locations .and then add fdm supports and slice it

[Julia________]

Just use support painting on prusaslicer and derivatives.

[infernaldaedra]

Supports will work in a pinch here but I'd recommend it would look better flipped on the beak. Slicer technology exists so you can slice that part out and print it upside down.

I think we should talk about POST PROCESSING methods more people. There is a lot of skill and knowledge there. I would even go as far as to print the beak teardropped with a pillar support as the resulting part may have a better finish and parts strength. 👍