Prusa Slicer, New Organic Supports

[dem34]

For anyone who has a Filament 3D printer, in the Alpha version of Prusa Slicer organic tree supports have been added with some quality of life mesh editing features.
Going to test it this evening with some rolling stock and Catenary poles. The main difference is that with these you aren't printing a giant lattice if you just need to support a small feature as well as the fact that these supports don't need to go onto the model within a lot of common uses, such as windows on a building that in the past would be a big block stuck in a window.

[peteski]

LOL!  And once removed from the printed part, the organic supports can be used as armatures for N scale trees!  Win all around!   

Seriously, this looks very interesting. Amazing what can be done with lots of math calculations and lots of computing power.

[kwledbetter]

I have been playing with these the last couple weeks and they are a total game changer that gets FDM as close to resin without hours of post process.  Really like it,

[dem34]

My printer needs a tad bit of tuning to get it all right, but. It does make 3D printing filler rolling stock so much easier since its just a couple little trees inside instead of a big block in the middle, and any little overhangs from door tracks can be supported without completely marring the door itself. And End of the day, getting it to print out my K poles in one shot takes a bit longer, but thats time where the machine is doing its own thing while I'm at work and skips the work of mating the two halves of the poles together, so no seam line that needs to be sanded.

[dem34]

ugh, of course I start testing with a bad roll of filament. 
Nothing worth posting for now, but *IT IS* a big game changer since I can just leave stuff in its assembled state and let it run withought wasting half a roll of filament in the process.