#Wall print in air
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Your only option in this case will be to use the "Print infill first" setting
use bridge settings to get that part printed as good as possible
Thank you for your feedback, nothing was really sufficient in my point of view. For better or worse, I have now increased the wall parameter to 5 walls. It's starting from the our ring to the inner. I hope the result will be fine.
I cannot see what you are doing there, what that is to be when finished. i but it looks like you are going to print more layers that will go over that slot the blue is not a wall, bit the bottom layer of a stucture upon it. you cannot print that in mid air, it needs support, you just have to lern how to work with supports what i see looks like a disc with a vertical hole through it and a horizontal slot that goes in half way. that always leaves an area that will be printed mid-air, thus you need supports. it shouldn't matter, if you know how to set up the supports, they will break loose by just poking a pencil ito the horizontal slot, you don't have to chisel them loose if you apply them correctly
Thats the actual item i want to print. The connection between foot an base plate is screwed with an M5 screw and the slot contains the M5 nut. I made some test prints (the first 2 screenshots) of the joint to check is everything fits tight and well. The print is running right now we'll see how the result will be.
I thought about an internal support but yeah.... i decided against it 🙂
there is even a better way to do this, pause the printer before it starts that layer that prints in the air, put that m5 nut in and resume printing. if you do that you can dispense with the horizontal slot, and only have a hex hole that holds the m5 nut and no bridges or ceilings. The same method is used to burry magnets inside the object.
this is what i mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbzUkDkDgU
This is a short tutorial for adding pause G-code to your Prints using Klipper and Orca Slicer. This can be used for adding nuts or weights to your prints and capturing them inside. The idle time is in seconds and can be set as needed.
The start gcode needs "SET_IDLE_TIMEOUT TIMEOUT=43200" and the end Gcode needs "SET_IDLE_TIMEOUT TIMEOUT=600" a...