Cura Custom Support Tutorial Awesome SUPPORT extension tools!

Hey folks, TechNervous here. I brought you back for another video on support. This time we're going to be doing custom supports using two separate plugins from the Marketplace. So in order to get these, you're going to have to download them and you will need to restart your version of Kira. So click on the Marketplace, give it a little bit to load, and scroll on down after the main section here, the premium recommended ones, you'll get to a couple that look like this. Now this is the stair step looking icon and this cylinder icon. We're going to take both of these. So we're going to hit install and just agree. And of course we'll need to restart Kira, but we're going to add the other one as well. So we're going to install that and then we will restart Kira and take a look at both of them. So grab that, hit install and agree. Now we let it do its thing. I'm going to restart Kira and I will see you in just a moment, show you exactly how these work. Hey folks, TechNervous here. If you haven't already, make sure you hit that subscribe button, but stick around because today we're going to be talking about some pretty interesting stuff I don't think you're going to want to miss. All right, here we are back in Kira. We have installed our extensions and reloaded it. I've pulled in a model. Now, obviously I would never attempt to print this model like this, but I am going to put it at a funky angle just to extremely, extremely exaggerate the overhang. So let's take this just like that. It'll set it down. And now you can see these are all the points that are over my angle of interface for doing something without support. So, um, down here on the left, you can see in the per model settings, I have two new selections. The first one is the custom support selection. So I can basically use a cube or a cylinder and we can basically just click where we want to put that. All right. Very, very simple. Very, very awesome. And super duper easy to use. You can change the size of the cylinder and the size of the base, and you can change it to a cube instead of a cylinder as well to give it a little bit more blocky selection there. Now it's putting these objects in as cylinders and as cubes, and then it's designating them to print as support. So this is designated in the per model settings to be printed as support. So when I slice, it'll automatically use the support settings that are in there and slice those up as they should be, whether I'm using a line grid, whatever pattern I'm using. So very, very simple, very easy to use. Let's check out the other one. It works in much the same way, except you have a few more options. So there's a free form option and you can choose a couple of different shapes. Let's see cross let's do a T support. And you can see that it widens it out up at the top there. There are several other options for things to do, bridging options, things like that. So this is the cross. It's basically just a almost star shaped. It's just a plus sign straight up and down. You can do support pillars that are hollow, which is pretty nice. Or you can do an abutment, which basically puts support right up against the model. And there are some other options as well. So this is really, really in depth. You can change the size, the interior size, and the angle and all of that. So really, really handy tools. This is going to save you a lot of filament. So you just have one small place you feel needs support and they try overanalyzing and telling you you're going to need a lot more than that. This is a great way to direct the support exactly where you want it. Make sure that you get the type and style that you want. And it doesn't use any filament more than what you would desire to use. Basically it's custom supports are great, not only to support models in specific orientations, but to reduce the filament used in those orientations. If the printer doesn't exactly, or excuse me, if the slicer doesn't exactly see that, that area doesn't need support. Like I said, in my last video, I had my support angle up really, really high. It's at like 59 or something like that. And I don't really have issues. So, um, we're going to slice this up. I'll show you what these sports look like once they're sliced. Just hang in there one second. And there you have it. Now, as I said, I'd like to reiterate that I would never orient a model with just the very little bit of it touching the build plate and try to print it like this. If I were to print this model, I would probably orient it on this surface and just drop some of that below the build plate. So there is a flat surface for adhesion, but for demonstrative purposes, this is a great example of these individual sports. And as you can see, they've all retained their shape and their individual settings. They are using the pattern setting from the support selection in here where it says support pattern. But they are in the shape that they're intended to be, and they work really, really well. So we can scroll down through here and get a glimpse inside some of those. And as you can see, it is using that line pattern in there. So, um, really, really cool. This was just a quick follow up video to the support video I did earlier. Some of you were asking about these extensions. I wanted to touch on them and give them the time to be in their own dedicated little space here because, uh, they are very, very powerful tools and very, very useful. And I definitely recommend as far as extensions go downloading these two, or at least my recommendation would be to download the custom support cylinder extension, because that seems to be a little bit more robust. And I like the options in there a little bit better, but they both work really well. They're both free and they're both fully functional. So definitely check them out. If you've been curious about custom support and how to utilize it, where to place the pillars that you want and how to do that yourself. This is the answer you've been looking for. So don't forget to leave a like on this video. If it was helpful guys hit that subscribe button. I've got a ton more videos like this coming at you and ring that notification bell to get notified. Every time I release one, there is a ton of stuff that most people who use Kira are not familiar with. And I'm trying to cover a few of the least familiar options to expose people to some of the new ideas and some of the cooler tools and extensions you can actually use with Kira because Kira is great by itself, but these extensions added in here that are usually community made are really, in my opinion, what makes it shine and worth checking out. So that's going to be it for this one, guys. Don't forget, like I said, to leave a like, this is going to be included in a playlist. You'll see that playlist up at the corner here. Feel free to click on that for other Kira settings and I will see you in the next one. Stick around, guys. I got another YouTube recommended video for you right here. And if you haven't already, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, make sure that you smash that like button. We'll see you in the next one. Tech Nibbers out.