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Hi Formlabs team,

I’m currently building an automated integration/pipeline around a Formlabs printer, and my first tests look really promising — thanks for the great tooling so far.

I’ve run into one issue with automatic support generation:
I need to prevent supports from being placed in a specific region of the part. I know the exact area where supports must not appear (a “no-support zone”).

Is there a way to retrieve the generated support connection/touch points (e.g., as an array/list of points, IDs, or references) so I can:

  1. validate whether any points fall inside my forbidden region, and

  2. if needed, remove those points (or otherwise exclude them) from the support generation result?

If direct access to connection points isn’t possible: is there an official workflow/API for defining support exclusion volumes / masks / blocked regions for auto-supports?

Any pointers (API endpoints, SDK objects, example snippets) would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi @reneweinmann,

Thanks for your question and happy to hear the printer is working out so far!
We don’t have a feature exactly like what you described, but you can always move or delete any touchpoints manually in PreForm, as described under “Removing a touchpoint” in this guide.
I hope this helps!