# More control over support structures

**URL:** <https://forum.formlabs.com/t/more-control-over-support-structures/245>\
**Category:** Feature Requests & Ideas\
**Created:** [July 5, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/more-control-over-support-structures/245 "2013-07-05T23:57:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![DamienB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@DamienB](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/DamienB)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/more-control-over-support-structures/245/4 "2013-07-17T23:41:57Z")

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Charles,

PreForm is already using a separate shell/body for the supports.

I’ve build a small program to extract the STL from the .form files ([http://wp.me/p3gI7M-90](http://wp.me/p3gI7M-90)).

The extracted geometry does not keep the rotation/translation and scale information, but the supports are a different body in the STL.

Cheers

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