# Excessive part warpage during curing

**URL:** <https://forum.formlabs.com/t/excessive-part-warpage-during-curing/35670>\
**Category:** Form 3L\
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/excessive-part-warpage-during-curing/35670 "2023-02-13T21:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jantarek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jantarek](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/jantarek)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/excessive-part-warpage-during-curing/35670/3 "2023-02-14T16:47:55Z")

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I’ve cured parts without heat and sometimes that helped but not always, Like Jennifer mentioned, layouts and supports might help but also I’ve been adding a designed sacrificial part that gets attach to the print with supports and discarded after cure, I know this does not look anything like your build but the idea was the the same, the “spoons” were bending in cure and in this case this completely solved this.

this was exported as 1 stl

 ![strainers](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/formlabs/original/3X/9/4/94cfb98142d378748ed27caf3893371b48de5d12.JPG)

and with supports

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/formlabs/original/3X/0/1/01fb32e8a65050e50d10c5f980a1f687a2428d1c.jpeg)

also this was discussed here

> [@Form Cure- Tall, thin Durable parts collapsing under their weight](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/form-cure-tall-thin-durable-parts-collapsing-under-their-weight/30531):
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> We are printing extrusion shapes on our Form3, and many have small wall thicknesses and cross sections. We are printing our extrusions straight off the bed because support material can’t reach all surfaces. This leads to a lot of long, tall parts. When we put the Durable parts in our Form Cure, they become very soft and actually collapse under their own weight causing them to be ruined. Has anyone found a good solution to this? I made a rack to crudely hang our parts from in our Form Cure to ha…

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