So I have been fighting trying to print a Lion model from thingiverse at the request of my 3 year old son. It’s not possible to print unsupported but I never had much luck with slic3r or cura support removal. I tried a print using meshmixer support and lost adhesion on a leg and an upright early in the print. So I made spaghetti all night long.
I bit the bullet and purchased simplify3d. Wow this software is amazing. All the settings you’d want and the support material snapped off so clean no sanding was required. It performs like Affina printers support work in videos I’ve seen. Pricey software… But I am now sold.
I printed at .18mm layer height, 40mm/s, 195c, orange semi translucent pla from seemecnc.
@Eclsnowman , if I was to try to print that, I think I would have tried printing it butt down. Although that may seem strange, you would have had minimum support material cleanup and else than the legs, almost everything probably would have been within acceptable overhang limits.
Depends on what you a doing or using it for. If i can confirm it it can be transferred to a different PC due to it crashing ect i will buy this. i am waiting on an answer back from the company.
Here is the email i have gotten from S3D about transferring the program.
Hi Wayne,
You can easily transfer the software to a different computer if you need to. You can go to Help > Deactivate Product to move the license or you can contact us if your hard drive crashes or some other similar catastrophic failure.
Man I almost pulled the trigger yesterday after meeting a guy who had nothing but glowing reviews for it. But I lost my never when I was entering my credit card info.
@D_Rob thanks. I love that this is a hobby you always learn from. There is never a failure. Just opportunities to learn more and improve. Now I just have to dig deeper into simplify3d’s settings. I am just glad it turned out so well on the first thing I ever sliced. My son loves it BTW. That helped smooth things over with the misses who hates how much time I spend printing
