I am trying to print a fairly simple tool that is mostly flat with a mild bend in the middle. I have had several prints form a “bend” near the supports and I have tried printing in several orientations. Anything I can change or look at for a solution? See image below.
Try lowering your touchpoint size and using those to add many more supports along the bottom edge. The gap is too large between the supports leading to the warping.
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Hi @erich_lohmann
The biggest issue with this orientation is the flat edge that is printing right after the supports are ending.
You will basically end up with a razor thin film of resin only 1-2 layers “thick” that you peel off of the bottom of the tank, bending it very easily.
I’d recommend printing the model starting from a corner and if you can, manually add a couple very thin supports to the flat face, so the model can’t bend/wobble easily on the supportsduring the print.
if the edge isn’t rounded at the bottom, you could also print this directly on the build platform, in which case I’d add about 0.1mm of Z compression correction (in the advanced support menu) to eleviate the elephants foot.
I took the liberty of loosely recreating your part, this is what I was thinking of (while uploading this picture, I realised there will be some stepping on the top surface so either increase the angle some more or use the “select base” function to lay it flat onto that edge and then turn the part 180°).
Remember that for the Z compression to work in the No Raft option you will have to edit in at least one support, confirm the generation of said support, go back into edit mode and erase it.
