Rostock MAX v2 Assembly Guide
when it's finished. As mentioned in the help text, a good air gap is one half the diameter of the nozzle.
For example, if your nozzle is 0.5mm, you'd want an air gap of 0.25mm.
You can use the
Fan Speed
setting to cool the raft as it's being printed. This is typically only
used when printing with PLA.
If you've added a second extruder to your Orion, you can specify which one should be used for
rafts by setting the
Raft Extruder
value to the index of the extruder you want to use. If you don't have
multiple extruders, you can leave this set to zero.
The
Support Material
page provides detailed settings on the use of support material if the part
you're printing requires it. While I covered the basics of support earlier, I'm going to get a bit more in-
depth on it here.
Checking
Generate Support
Material
will allow you to configure
support for your part. Support is required
when a part has an overhang or other
angled feature that would result in little or
no physical support to put a print layer on.
The
Support Type
selection allows you to
define the geometric pattern for the support structure. You have
GRID
and
LINES
. These patterns
were covered earlier, so I won't cover them again here. The new parameter you have to work with in
Advanced
mode is called
Amount
.
Amount
is expressed in degrees from vertical and tells the slicing engine to generate support
for any feature that meets or exceeds the specified angle. In the setting
shown above, the slicing engine will generate support at points where the
model “overhangs” 45 degrees or more from vertical.
When you've got a part feature that's only 20 degrees or so, each
layer can easily be supported by the layer underneath. This is because as
the part height increases, the horizontal dimension increase is less than
290
Fig. 25-5: 20 deg. overhang.
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