¶ Sidewall Support
In 3D printing, a sidewall support (also known as a “support wall” or “stabilizing structure”) is a support structure used to improve the quality and success of the printed part.
¶ Create Sidewall support
- Select the model and click [Profile] → [Support] → [Sidewall];
- Enter the Create sidewall support mode:
- The model is grayed out and the material color of the model is no longer displayed to enhance the ease of use in observing the sidewall support during creation;
- Only the current model and the corresponding model's support and created sidewall support are displayed, and other models are hidden;
- Determine the height of the sidewall support to be added using the Drag & Drop or by entering the [Height] parameter;
- Click on the selected plane to place the starting point of the sidewall support, and the software automatically determines the end point of the sidewall support counterclockwise, according to ¼ of the entire contour length;
- You can drag again in the view to change the starting point and end point;
- Real-time preview and display of the sidewall support to be generated during the dragging process, if it is not possible to generate then there will be a corresponding prompt and the inability to click the [Apply] button;
- Adjust other parameters in the sidewall support panel and click [Apply] to confirm the generated stable wall;
- If there is interference between the sidewall support and the model, you will be prompted whether to disable the [Remove Mesh Overlap] parameter to improve print quality;
- You can also subsequently adjust them individually in the process parameters;
- After clicking OK, a new plane is automatically generated at the corresponding height, and you can continue the common sidewall support;
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¶ Sidewall support parameters
- You can view the meaning of each parameter through the ℹ️ flag in the sidewall support parameter panel as specified below:
- You can can check the following table to determine the exact meaning of the sidewall support parameters:
| No. | Parameter Name | Parameter Meaning | Diagram |
| 1 | Start | The starting point of the sidewall support, which can be changed by dragging and dropping the starting point icon. |
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| 2 | End | The end point of the sidewall support, which can be changed by dragging and dropping the end point icon. | |
| 3 | Number | The number of sidewall supports, must be an integer. | |
| 4 | Spacing | The spacing between the sidewall supports. | |
| 5 | Height | The height of the sidewall support, not allowed to exceed the lowest and highest points of the model. | |
| 6 | Depth | The outermost distance of a sidewall support from the selected model plane. | |
| 7 | Thickness | The wall thickness of the sidewall support, which is an integer multiple of the outer wall line width, is automatically adjusted to an integer multiple when entered as a non-integer multiple. | |
| 8 | Pad Height | The height of the pad of the sidewall support, used to enhance the stability of the sidewall. The value of the thickness needs to satisfy the initial layer height + N* layer height to meet the printing requirements, when entered as an illegal value it will automatically adjust to the nearest value nearby. | |
| 9 | Lateral Clearance | The spacing between the sidewall support wall and the model surface. | |
| 10 | Joint Penetration Length | The length of the sidewall support wall nail that extends into the model; when the value = 0, the wall nail is tangent to the model. | |
| 11 | Joint Interval | The spacing between the joint of the sidewall support wall. | |
| 12 | Joint Start Height | The height of the bottom of the sidewall support wall joint from the printing platform. The value of the height needs to satisfy the initial layer height + N*Layer Height in order to meet the printing requirements, and will be automatically adjusted to the nearest value when entered as an illegal value. | |
| 13 | Joint Height | The height of the sidewall support joint, the value of the height needs to meet the height of the N layer height to meet the printing needs, when entered as an illegal value will automatically adjust to the nearest value nearby. |
¶ Edit sidewall support
- You can select sidewall support in the preparation environment, right-click and select Edit sidewall support Again, Delete Selected sidewall supports, and Delete all sidewall supports;
- You can also select the sidewall support in the preparation environment and click the [Sidewall] command to enter the stable wall command;
¶ Setting up the printheads for the sidewall support
You can set the printhead of the sidewall support by selecting the sidewall support in the preparation environment;
¶ Effect of process parameter update on sidewall support
If you update the outer wall line width, layer height, and initial layer height parameters in the process parameters after generating a sidewall support, it will affect the modeling of the stabilized wall, and a pop-up window will remind you whether to generate a new stabilized wall again when editing it for the second time.
