Easy Custom Manual Supports In Cura (4.6.1) For 3d Printing
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In this video we take a look at how I use a custom support plugin in Cura to allow me to place supports only where I need them. This is such an awesome plugin that is very handy for times when Cura is not able to create supports exactly how you want them. After you watch this video you will be off and creating custom supports of your own!
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You can also change the support angle. If you increase the angle closer to 90 degrees the support will only form under angles that are greater than that number. This custom support plug in is also a good tool to have for some situations
This is probably one of the most usefull videos. I never realized to go to the marketplace to look for add ons like this that are ultra helpful. Just an idea for ya, you should do a video dedicated to marketplace add-ons that are handy to have. I never would have known this existed and I'm sure theres alot of others who don't either. If theres any add-ons you advise I'd love to know about em. Great video man
I used "tree supports" for the first time, on my last print. They went well, it engulfed the print, a pair of scissors made short work of it!
spent 2 and a half hours printing smth the print broke before the suports lol
I didn't even know how to turn on supports. This will help me a ton. Thanks!
Awesome happy to help :)
Support Interface is where the magic happens
hey man, I really want to thank you for this, I've wasted so much material and time on horrible prints that snap with a little force, because of the huge supports. Now I can finally print without wasting 600-700 grams on large prints. This video may be a year old, but god damn did this help me.
You can also turn up the support required angle- in the video you have it set to 45°, you could set it a little higher.
Thank you, I was just using Creality slicer that was with the printer, this is a game changer for me for sure.
Awesome happy to hear that this video was helpful :) thank you for the feedback
Check out prusa slicer or super slicer
If I’m correct you don’t have to scale the box that big. For my test cura generated supports all the way down even if I only put one little block
Yeah, you can take advantage of bridging to get less support, and it'll be much faster too.
After a brutal cleanup yesterday , thank you so much for this video
I cannot find Custom Supports on Marketplace...
me neither
same
Just as I was searching this up you uploaded what I wanted just some days ago, thank you!
If I only found this video a couple hours earlier it would have saved me so much time a olastic on my current print. Thank you for this tip
I have been looking for ages this week for supports At least I know it's in the marketplace now, and cheers... video still relevant now!!
This is exactly what i needed and straight to the point and very clear instructions thank you so much!
you have no idea how much you just helped me mr ModBot, you just earned yourself a new subscriber, thank you so much, love from Colombia
Saved 10 grams and 2.5 hours on my print 27% time savings with this method. Thanks
dude that's awesome!! I printed a figurine recently and it looked JUST like your example with the supports EVERYWHERE, and was impossible to un-case the figurine from the supports. This custom plugin will be SO much more useful!!
the tree supports in the experimental section really work well and easy to remove i never use these supports anymore
Yeah, old post, but just came here. Using it for "all" overhangs?
this is one of those things you simply MUST have in your bag of tricks... something in everyones Arsenal of 3d knowledge ... im almost into my second week of being a printer owner and im absorbing SO much my head is going to pop.. but even with all the troubles.. IM loving it and already planing on buying my second printer . :D this will only encourage me to do so sooner than later
great video.
Just what I was looking for, cheers buddy
Wow superb video thank you, I have steered away from supports for ages and ive just done my first print with supports thats ever worked properly after watching your video :)
Dude, seriously. Thank you so much. This is a time/money saver. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Awesome video. Your channel is so underrated, you’ve helped me more than many of the other youtubers
Thank you! I found several plugins that I can use. Never even thought of checking out the Marketplace because I thought it was just going to be unrelated stuff for sale. Custom supports looks like exactly what I needed for a project I'm working on. Wish I'd seen your video sooner!
This answered my questions about custom supports. Thanks.
The same app is available in the Creality Slicer, thank goodness. I have a Creality printer, so learned using the Creality Slicer, so this was extremely helpful. I just printed my 3rd figure and spent 30 minutes trying to take off all the "everywhere" supports and ended up damaging one arm and even tearing the figure off it's base. With the cylindrical supports, I have been able to eliminate 90% of the supports and all of the ones under the legs that were so hard to get out!
when i look up the plug in in the latest version of CURA it doesn't show up.
You should also look into tree supports under experimental. They're super cool.
I’ve never saved a video so fast in my life
OMG! Thankyou!!! I have want to print a certain item I have been developing and had so much issue getting out the supports. I will be able to make it how I want!
This is an awesome add-on for an already wonderful slicer! Thanks for the tutorial.
perfect video thanks. got my miniPC bracket printed perfectly.
LOOKS LIKE THIS PLUG IN IS NOT AVAIL ANY MORE
Thank you
It’s called cylindrical custom support
I just started 3d printing and printing everything I can get my hands on to see what it can do.. this will definitely make my prints faster and easier to clean up
Most impactful 3D printing video for me to date lol. Supports are so confusing for me
Another great little nugget of printing info.....keep em coming!!
Great video. I was actually looking for this. I forgot it's a plugin
Excellent video i am new to 3D printing and this video was so easy to understand and not to long excellent work ,you have an new follower
DUDE! This video was WICKED helpful. Thanks so much for posting it.
Awesome video! I'm new to this hobby and it is a big help. Thanks
Your explanations are crystal clear. Good job. I am more using Prusa Slicer because I was using original Sli3er. There are equivalent features.
Thank you for your kind words and feedback 🙏
exactly what i need, explained perfectly. thankyou so much!
Thank you i've been fighting with the supports for a while on this print i was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my supports were not printing correctly!
This video was very helpful! Thank you very much!
Awesome. I just been upgraded!
Thank you, that was extremely concise and informative!!
This functionality is also essentially native in cura. Click the model to add a support blocker. Then select the support blocker and select print as support. The outcome is identical to the process in this video.
You can also make a support blocker enable supports for the area where it overlaps the model, which might be preferable in some cases.
Thank you so much for the tips and all, I was having a hard time printing a model, now I can do it, thanks :)
Looking forward to trying this! Thank you for the tip!
its not there
does this plugin still exist in cura 5 ? cant seems to find in the marketplace
is the plugin still there I cant find it anymore in cura marketplace, maybe its windows only
I found a link to the plugin via an all3dp article and the author no longer exists apparently :/
I'm trying to print a DnD character that is like 2" .. so difficult trying to remove auto supports, breaks the little arms and characters under skirt is impossible to remove. Thanks for this info hopefully it works better.
I think thats in the more recent releases of cura by default now, no need for a plugin. Simply place and size a support blocker, (button under the one you clicked for custom supports) like you did in the video. Then go over to per model settings (button over the one you clicked for custom supports) and the second of the quick options is print as support.
Thank you for your service
Massive massive help thank you
New to 3d printing! Plugin doesnt exist anymore?
Gonna have to get me some PVA. I just got a qidi x-pro. Has duel extrusion. It’s $500+ printer. Got for $80 on a auction brand new!!
nice video, I believe you only need to place it under where you want it, and Cura will project it down to the base on it's own, that's the impression from CHEPs video on the subject
Yes, that's how it works for me. Also this is available in other versions of cura.
Thank you for this incredibly useful video!
Thanks for this video, i was trying to do customs supports all wrong lol :p now i just wish there were more shape options for the custom support
You beautiful man, subbed 🤣
Had I found this sooner I'd have saved a good half day on a VAWT print (they get wibbly at the top...😅)
Awesome tutorial Dan, I also tilt the model 45 and add supports then reorient the model back to 0, and this way i use even less supports.
Interesting, sort of like what I would do on a resin printer. Thanks for the tip that is a great idea!
awesome and helpful video. thanks
Thanks so much! Great quick tutorial!
Super helpful! Thanks
Thank you. I was printing wayyy to much support.
would have loved to see you break the support off to see how clean of a job it did, good stuff tho
Really valuable info! ✅️
How about you try TREE SUPPORT, it's under Experimental, it works great for exactly these situations.
Definitely will be trying these out. Seems like a lot of people speak highly of them.
Highly agree ! Use it all the time. You have to play a bit with the settings but once you get used to it you’ll can’t live without 👍
Yes, tree support can do amazing things from the build plate ... rising like a tornado. Can malfunction too. Wish there were better ways to control it. Instead of excluding support regions, would like to say Tree Support on THIS spot only.
thanks im trying it now
In my experience, PVA isn't all it's cracked up to be. I have an Ultimaker S3, the PVA keeps breaking at the feed causing the print to stop, and of course on reloading the PVA and restarting, the print, it gets destroyed (2+ Hours to do a 10 min print). The removal of PVA (i.e. "Water Soluble) takes longer than the print. Example: 1/2" square part that takes 22 minutes to print (with support, 11 minutes without) takes 20+ minutes to dissolve the PVA in an ultrasonic cleaner (longer if just sitting in warm water).
I find the vast majority of time tree supports strike the right balance, come off super easy, and are very stable. It's under the experimental section
I will have to give them a go. It seems a few people have mentioned tree supports. Perhaps I will make a video on them.
ModBot the only downsides I have experienced is that sometimes it generates supports that aren't close enough or dense enough, but in general they are great. The other downside is they take way longer to generate. For really complicated models it can take 5+ minutes. But when you get better models, using less material, I consider it a trade off worth doing.
Yeah, definitely do a video on them! More people need to know.
I like ideamaker more when it comes to that. You can auto gen supports before you slice and then delete them where its unnecessary or add a few more custom supports in a similar fashion. Then you slice it
Not sure if "easy cusom support" in the video thumbnail image is intentional...
I thought Cusom was a new support method, then I realized it was just a typo
that was the clickbait :D
I've been using custom supports in craftware for years and the best thing about their supports is that they can be drawn at angles to create manual tree supports in combination with automatic supports. Always surprised me how popular Cura was for so long not having that important freedom for 3D printing and this implementation feels very awkward.
Great guide though!
I did not know that Craftware has custom supports. Are you using it with a CraftBot printer? Or can you make a profile for another printer?
I do wish that Cura would implement them naitively.
@@ModBotArmy Anyone can create custom printer and slicer profiles for free :) I do not have any craftbot printers but some are worth a shout out to the right buyers. I would really appreciate it if you gave their slicer a try and shared your thoughts. Feel free to let me know if you need any help.
Other great things about the slicer than custom drawing supports are:
-snap face to print bed like simplify3D
- pop up pictures/gifs and text explaining slicer settings which is great for beginners
I think the Cura developers are very competitive and progressive, all they need to know is that there are people that are doing something better and they will try to improve which is perhaps my favorite thing about the slicer.
@@ModBotArmy in my personal opinion craftware has the best custom supports feature compared to all slicers ive used ideamaker comes a close second and as @Daniel .power says the way you can draw them out from any angle is the best bit ... the only peeve i have is sometimes removing them as mine has always been a bit of a pickle to remove i would like to know id Daniel also has these problems ??
Custom supports are very useful. I have some models that require printing cylinders on their sides. It's still challenging to get a good result and drilling out the supports is a pain. I'm using 10% infill for the supports. I'm using an FDM printer and it appears that a resin printer would still have the same issue with supports. A IDEX printer with water soluble supports might be the best choice.
thank you! most excellent!
Thank you man! Very usefull! Subscribed!
Great find in Cura
Thanks for sharing 👍😁
Thanks for the feedback!
Did you try to use Tree supports at all for printing this? Ive been printing busts with Cura and Tree Supports have been a life saver for me.
Thanks! I know this is a 3 year old video but this is what was pissing me off about Cura among many other things. I couldn't figure out how to do custom supports. I forget that stupid Cura doesn't include a lot of funtions I desire without installing plugins. I've been using idea maker for my Artillery Sidewinder X2's and the flashforge slicer for my adventurer 3C. BOTH slicer give the ability to place supports and make it SOOOOO EASY. I can't understand WHY Cura and a lot of other slicers can't be closer to how Idea Maker is. I'm only using Cura because Idea Maker doesn't have any profiles yet for Elegoo printers. I have the Elegoo Neptune Max 3 and having to use Cura or Prusa Slicer makes using the Neptune Max 3 a pain.
Excellent. Thanks!
Bro I love Cusom support
Thank you so much for this video!
Life saver!!! thanks bro!
Thank you for this tip and the video.
whats funny is I've been subscribed since your xbox360 hack videos because I was hacking one aswell and now Im watching your 3D printing stuff like 10 years later because Im doing the same.
How awesome haha. I am stoked that you are still watching man. It’s been quite a journey 😬
great video thanks!!
You told me very well, my friend. thank you. 👍🇹🇷
good video! But wouldnt it be way more efficient to use Curas Tree support for something like that?!
I think this is possible without this plugin a long time ago
-just add support blocker and move it to the face that u want to be supported (u don't have to take it all the way down, just hit the face that needs support)
-go to "Per Model Settings (left sidebar just over the Support Blocker button)
-select "Modify settings for overlaps" and uncheck "Infill only
-Click on your model and make sure "Generate Support" isn't check
-Click on the box what u made and "Generate Support" is check
Great video!!
try tree supports - i think they are still experimental in cura but in this case the supports could have started at the buildplatform. it has the same issues with regular supports though - you need blockers. But it's also easier to remove.
Nice video. Would have been nice to see you remove the support once you were done to see how easy it is. Thanks.
Do you have an updated video for this problem?
Hello, Do you have a video showing how to remove the supports cleanly? Thank you for this video it helped.
Excellent informative video! Very valuable information. Thank you. If you could do a similar video on using tree supports, it would be great as well. I wondered if you need to do the same thing with tree supports where you state that you check 'generate supports' adjust the setting then un-check it before printing.
It seems that there is quite a bit of interest in tree supports. I will definitely be playing around with them and revisiting to provide feedback.
Wouldn't you get the same effect if you just changed the angle that needs supported in the Cura settings?
He has the overhang angle set to 45 where he could probably get away with anywhere between 75 and 80
@@thomashillyard6553 Yes, that's what I was referring to, thanks for clarifying!