
Then confirming that the generated support structures are in the right spots. You may be better off orienting it by hand and thinking about the way it’s printing and what needs support. I think the “auto-orient” function may not be ideal for complicated structures with a lot of arms and dangly parts. If you look at pictures from John Morewood’s spiral tower, forgetting about the red for a minute, you can tell that the top, though showing in red, should be pretty well supported by the base as it’s printed.Īs someone mentioned, there is some magic to it. I hand oriented the figure - doing my best to decide where the figure needed supports - and the end result was super, even though there was a lot of “red” in the drawing in Preform. The pieces that were supported were great but there was a lot left unsupported. In the first few, I used the ‘auto-orient’ which ended up causing really bad prints. I have found that switching back and forth from my 5ghz to 2.4ghz wifi jogs preform and it then updates with primed.



PREFORM FORMLABS EXAMPLES SOFTWARE
I recently ran several prints of the same figure. Review the PreForm release notes to learn more about the improvements that come with each software release. Ever since I updated preform, I am now getting a printer disconnected status when i launch preform. Formlabs may give telephonic or electronic notice to you by calls to appropriate numbers or emails to appropriate addresses on record in Formlabs’ account information for you. The red is not necessarily a problem area. To Formlabs: Formlabs, 35 Medford Street, Suite 301, Somerville, MA 02143, Attention: Legal.
