You, can, of course, configure everything about these supports to your liking.īut the new supports actually work best with another new feature, and that is automatic support painting. If you look at these branches, they do widen up towards the bottom, so they don’t fall over, but they also branch out towards the top, so one single printed column can actually support a good bit of area. 2.6, it’s using almost 2/3rds less filament for the support material. These branches are printed with limitations to how steep they can be so that they still print reliably, they’re just one wall thick for most of the time, so even though they are quite rigid, they weigh barely anything, in this case using PrusaSlicer 2.5 vs. Tree support goes outside the part if it can, but if it must, it will still fall back to anchoring itself to the part. That can leave scars, especially on darker material, and it’s pretty often awkward to remove from tight spots like holes and little cubbies. I’ve also seen it called “tentacle support”, that works, too, so instead of building these sparse blocks just vertically straight up to the area that needs supporting, these can now snake around your part from the build plate and reach into spots that otherwise would need to have support material printed on top of the part itself. Okay, first big feature – support material. For me, it was working flawlessly, but in any case, it uses a separate config directory, so it’s not going to mess up your PrusaSlicer 2.5 profiles. Open Source is pretty beautiful when it works!Īlright, before we start, this is a pre-release piece of software, bugs aren’t just possible, they are expected.
Some of the new features we’re going to look at are adapted from other open-source slicers and then fine-tuned for PrusaSlicer, and, vice-versa, I hope that other slicers pick up the rest of the features, too. Of course, this isn’t just for Prusa machines, you can use PrusaSlicer with any 3D printer that speaks gcode, in fact, the 2.6 release now out-of-the-box has tuned profiles for the new Elegoo Neptune series, Creality Sermoon and Ender-5 machines, the AnkerMaker, and even for Print4Taste’s food printer, a printer I’ve reviewed here on the channel, too.
This one is 2.6, alpha 3 at this time at the time of me recording, and it brings with it some features that, each one on their own, are just, nice, but when you put them all together, it makes for an overall well-improved package. It’s a new year, it’s a new PrusaSlicer release. PrusaSlicer 2.6 might change how we work with 3D files (and you can use it with any 3D printer)!
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