Is 'Exclude Supports' possible?

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SO I was printing an object this morning which contained tree supports for a somewhat domed object. The object was printing fine but the small arms of the trees were getting knocked about. Then after a few layers most of the trees were knocked off the plate. Interesting enough, the object was printing fine and the trees started to reappear as they were becoming interconnected with the last two trees.

It made me think: can I exclude the supports from an object? After all, we have exclude_object in the code and reference object in most slicers. It would in practice act as if an object’s support structure is just another object. But just to ensure sanity between and object and support, I guess there should be an [exclude_support] configuration.

My thoughts on how it would work:

  1. Initial geometries for the objects are established. [Object_1], [Object_2], etc.
  2. After all objects are defined, then the slicer adds supports for each object, according to the support rules. [Support_1], [Support_2], etc.
  3. For Mainsail, the objects appear as one color, the object supports in another color.
  4. Select the intended object_support and confirm with pop-up.
  5. The affect support code is then passed over.
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I had the same experience and similar thoughs.
I think there is no reason to distinguish between object and support from the klipper side and duplicate functionality.
So, this sounds like a slicer feature request where different supports are defined as separate objects.

Thanks.

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And even in my own thoughts:

Yeah, I guess I answered my own question there. I’ll move this over to OrcaSlicer.

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