These new Tree Supports are AMAZING - Prusa Slicer 2.6

[@BIPTOA]

I love the new slicer. With hard to remove supports it's definitely something with how different filaments behave but sometimes even on the same brand they just pop off and sometimes they are stuck but if you blow a little hot air on them to warm up connection a little they are very easy to remove.

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

Thanks to Ultimaker Cura for providing the tree support algo.

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

@darksky7769 Ultimaker provided Arachne and tree supports to the community a long time ago

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

@darksky7769 that's completely wrong, that algorithm and ultimaker cura are open source projects.

[@raetheon8897]

I’m happy that 3D slicing programs all around has improved greatly! FYSA, Cura 5.3 had these features already! Shoutout to all the Devs that made these features possible and user friendly! 💪🏾 😎

[@UncleJessy]

Agreed! Oddly enough I have a hell of a time with them in Bambu slicer

[@StumblingBumblingIdiot]

WAIT - Cura has the ability to add pins already? Where have I been!!! I gotta check the betas more often!

[@josephanthonygonzalezdelar4946]

Idk but my super slicer and prusa profiles are better tuned at this point than my cura profile. I go to Cura when I want tree supports but usually it’s 2-3 more hours over ss or prusa with mesh mixer supports 🫠

[@darknaoverfang8261]

@@UncleJessy I have a question is there a way I can send you a message to get a request for a mask and how much it is because I need a pacific mask to be made for my wrestling and I need someone who can make it for me for a decent price

[@petercasper224]

Always a pleasure watching your channel UJ! You have the most informative 10min updates. Two thumbs-up

[@UncleJessy]

Heck yeah! 🤣😂 yeah I try to keep them as short as I can…

[@BurakArium]

Hello, the objects we prepared with this slice in the program do not appear on the screen of elegoo printers. Is there a solution to this?

[@hargabyte]

There is also a slider for highlighting overhangs. I have found this to be very helpful in painting supports in Bambu slicer. It looks like there is the same option here. There is an enforce button that makes it so you can only paint on the highlighted area. This makes it much easier to avoid painting supports in areas that dont need it.

[@PandaPeej]

I've been so happy with the Organic (tree) Supports, and have been getting my Neptune 3 Pro profile dialed in. It's crazy how much of a heavy hitter it further makes that machine.

[@3DMusketeers]

Great overview! Glad you are finally looking at moving away from S3D. I think PrusaSlicer is really innovating so much these days and not even charging a dime! Being an alpha I think the pin thing will be fixed before the major release, but I had the same issue with the pins! Play with the manual painting with the brush as well, I think you will find it very similar to the painting in S3D that you are currently using!

[@Michael_Kroes]

The pin thing is already in. It’s an option when creating them. You can adjust the tolerance directly when creating them.

[@olafb.2929]

The embossing of text is nice when you make personalized presents. Of course the tree support is an awesome addition. Going to try it now 😉

[@davidf2281]

Adding settings text on the bottom of prints is a great idea

[@UncleJessy]

I just wish I could export the stl files with the text

[@larkerpudwig]

Love waking up to a new UJ video. I’ve been using prusa for 2 weeks now and with the addition of tree supports I can’t think of a reason to go back to cura

[@RoseKindred]

I've never used Prusa slicer, and I've been asking around but no response yet. I was wondering if after you add the tree supports if you can then save/export the model file with them on there. Much like how people make pre-supported miniatures for resin printers to send out.

[@jrh2023]

I just tried exporting as an stl it did not save the supports in place when I loaded it back up I'm assuming it's because the supports are generated by slicing and specific to your g code so they would need to make a pre slicing tree model adding feature which would be dope but don't think they would wanna deal with considering they just got tree supports in alpha but I'd send em an email would be a dope feature just have no clue how hard it would be to do

[@RoseKindred]

@@jrh2023 Thank you for trying, and replying. You were the first in several days/comments. I guess for now I may have to either wait or try another software after designing.

[@StumblingBumblingIdiot]

FINALLY someone added pins to their software! Used to be Netfabb did it automatically or meshmixer manually (or of course just 3d software you could do it manually) and then luban came along and did a.......decent job of it.....not perfect but decent, now Prusa takes it on so maybe Cura will have that feature soon also!

[@UncleJessy]

Yeah the big thing id like to see is being able to make the pins smaller than the actual hole cutouts

[@seanwick35]

My 6 year old son and I have a TOYBOX 3d printer and we have quickly outgrown it. We are both getting frustrated with how little we can print on it. You basically can’t print anything needing supports as the supports print rock solid. What 3D printer would you recommend we graduate to? Looking to spend under $500 and want to be able to print really large things like masks and also want it to be really easy to use as we are beginners, thanks!! Love the channel!

[@RuEmileo]

I really want a Neptune 3 Max but can't find one in stock anywhere that ships to the US. Should I just pick up a P1P?

[@testoww]

if you have that kind of money then definitely go for it, Bambu is much faster and the quality of prints are superb.

[@parserthelynx]

PrusaSlicer 2.6 a3 has been great so far. I don't use Cura, so I'm happy trees are now in a slicer familiar to me. That, and paint-on supports and lightning infill have been major, and FUN, improvements over all. And they're SO easy to remove! Grids are a pain!

[@deeply999]

Cura has had this feature with their 5.3 alpha released a few months ago... old news but useful

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Same with Bambu Studio. I guess Prusa being late to the party is becoming a reoccurring theme.

[@briandicinti9535]

Actually Cura has had Tree supports for years, but enhanced them in the latest version. Once I used tree supports, I never went back to normal supports. They come off so easily.

[@JamesEarlCash]

Wow, I mean - they not only look to be working well, but we can actually use those "trees" as tabletop trees with some foliage glued onto them!

[@UncleJessy]

🤣😂 now that’s a fun idea

[@3d_printer_go_brrrrr]

Hey, have you faced a problem where these supports just fly away midprint because nozzle touched it? I've had that happen so many times. I wonder why.

[@raiderrx1438]

same

[@UncleJessy]

Will be touching on this in another video next week as I’ve now run into 4 big layer shifts since using these on larger prints. I’ve had zero layer shifts until I’ve started using these supports

[@johnnyv9024]

Can confirm, PrusaSlicer 2.6 is GLORIOUS. I keep hopping back and forth between Cura and Prusa depending on the print need, but now I might just settle in with Prusa for a while since it does almost everything. Having the profiles for Elegoo right there is also soooo nice rather than hunting something down and tweaking it. Only 'gotcha' was the profile disables the power loss recovery for Neptune 3, but apparently that fixes some quality issues I wasn't even aware of lol

[@blakemoody5866]

the pins generated should have setings to adjust their clearances. I recall them talking about it in the prusa live video. Could also be a small printer calibration tweak as well

[@VinhNguyen-np7qn]

Super new to 3d printing. On the Github page for 2.6 there are 8 files listed. Can anyone tell me which ones I need to install? All 8?

[@gzaros]

Can you control the distance between the trees and the prints as you can with Cura?

[@UncleJessy]

Yes, I believe that is in some of the control options

[@boitmecklyn4995]

I like that you can use the "add connectors" feature to create inserts for magnets. just select the dowel connector option and just don't print the dowels.

[@coronitaflotante]

Mr. Uncle Jessy first time prusaslicer here I just liked the cut and place peg feature for prusa I tried using it and exporting to cura and it covers the top pice peg hole. I did this mainly because I feel a little more hands on woth cura but need to get used to the names in prusa because overall it seems realy versatile.

[@wrksless971]

I tried it out today and I think I need to work on my orientation do to either droop or knocking.

[@housecaldwell]

Just curious what that glue was that you used to hold the dagger together? I've not seen that brand before

[@UncleJessy]

3dgloop.com sets in seconds. Love it

[@housecaldwell]

@@UncleJessy thank you! Ordering now!

[@LoadedClipse1]

be nice if Elegoo had printers in stock im gunna buy another company that has stock sucks when replacing multiple printers any clue when they will return in stock ?

[@UncleJessy]

They just had the plus and pro back in stock. I know a lot more are in stock in the next few weeks

[@LoadedClipse1]

@@UncleJessy thank you ill wait then i was wanting 2 of the neptune 3 max looking to replace worn out lk1s

[@UuU1001.]

Starting to get into 3d printing but have no clue what machine to buy. I see you using a bunch of different printers. Which one would you suggest for someone wanting to make consistent prints (I don’t know 10+ prints per week) and doesn’t have too high of a learning curve? It seems like you use the elegoo a lot, but people seem to say the prusa is like the gold standard but bambulab seems like the hot thing that may possibly become standard.

[@lucasmontec]

What is the difference between these tree supports and cura's ones? Cura have had tree supports for a long while now.

[@JJiG]

Ive been trying to buy an elegoo printer but the us warehouse is never updated with stock and I check every day!

[@jayc2903]

Jessy when will the ELEGOO Neptune 3 Max be availble?

[@UncleJessy]

I believe they said in the next few weeks 🤘

[@ARC-501-STEELE]

Can that slicer software work on any printer or specific printers?

[@ilikenothingtoo]

Rather than print the pins why not make sure the holes diameter matches a dowel or metal rod. Way stronger than a 3d printed pin.

[@marcoc.1646]

Thanks for the interesting video. Is there any news to upload the preview of the image that is being printed on the screen of the elegoo Neptune 3 series? Thank you

[@diegomanzanares7153]

Im trying out these tree supports for my Ender 3 and I wonder if there is a way for them to be removed easier than they are now. It seems that the supports are too sticked to the print and they are not as easy to remove as non organic supports. Thanks.

[@KillingIsBadong]

I've had a really poor experience so far with the Prusa organic supports. They seem to fail 4/5 times, and I've tried many different settings in the slicer to get them to work. I've added wide brims, I've slowed my printer (Elegoo Neptune 3) down considerably, I print in an enclosure, etc. and the organic supports still fail at various times during my prints. I print a lot of similar stuff to Uncle Jessy (armor, masks). I'm not sure what else to try, but I'm getting tired of failed prints and wasted filament, would have been less wasteful to just stick with Cura like I had before Prusa.

[@Vash.Baldeus]

Watched a few videos about this new version, one thing no one says how to do! How you enable those supports!

[@dharmix]

There is a tolerance setting for the dowels I set it to 1 or 2 percent and they fit fine

[@kumarawr740]

Wow. I just downloaded pursa 2.5-something for the supports feature This alpha has everything I'm looking for. I hope it turns out well. I'm excited to try it

[@UncleJessy]

Yeah and hasn’t been buggy for me so far

[@kumarawr740]

@@UncleJessy question: where do you access the tree supports at? I can't find a setting or option for them anywhere

[@kellypiggy2]

@@kumarawr740 They aren’t called tree supports they are called Organic supports! Hope that helps!

[@kumarawr740]

@@kellypiggy2 are they hidden somewhere? I don't see anything that says organic supports either.

[@kellypiggy2]

@@kumarawr740 You have to enable them in the support section. You can see this in 2:08 of the video.

[@jengalli6222]

can these supports be used on something like the elegoo Jupiter?

[@JohnSmith-rt5yq]

Doesn't Bambu studio already have this? Or are these different?

[@scratchinjack608]

I sorely need an updates Prusa slicer and this is what I'm waiting for....and still waiting....waiting.... I've been waiting far to much for Prusa releases, I gave up on the XL and now looking at both the larger Neptune formats and the Bambu. Thanks Jesse....what I can wait on is spending money! LOL!

[@toftlol]

What's that PLA glue stuff you use when sticking the dagger together?

[@Boomah4568]

3dGloop

[@toftlol]

@@Boomah4568 noticed that on the container. Thought that was a way to hide product placement or something

[@figuresix]

Jessy, was wondering if you plan to do an update on these new supports? I personally would like to see adjustments to those supports.. I am finding even with these new supports my helmets are saying they are going to take 1 day or even 2 days longer with Prusa with same exact settings as in Cura. If you can share a bit of your magic I would love to save some serious time on my prints.. Thanks.

[@doktortodes]

@unclejessy any word on when the Neptune’s will be back in stock? Been waiting ages

[@Becvar80]

Okay, what am I doing wrong? What changes from the stock support settings are needed to get them to release? Because I just printed a bust that ended up in the trash because the organic supports are fused to the print.

[@bubnikv]

You need to increase the Z gap.

[@bankaiop9504]

Cura has these aswell, what makes these better?

[@VegasMadMikey]

So when you place the pegs are the holes auto generated!

[@CDRaff]

Coming back to this video to say that you should check every print to see if organic is really the best option for supports as they don't always use less material and take less time. Today I was slicing a file and accidentally forgot to switch to organic so I saw the stats for grid supports, making the switch to organic added another 20 minutes to the print and another few grams of filament. Neither of these sound like much, but it was an 11% increase in time and a 10% increase in filament usage which for bigger models could be significant. Overall I really like organic supports, but they are not the be all end all that the community seems to make them out to be.

[@UncleJessy]

Great callout & 100% yes!

[@firsthope8196]

what is the glue you are using?

[@jaquesmerde9146]

theres now a tolerance slider for the pins so they should fit now

[@Blue-eu5qn]

Is this the same as Bambu Labs Tree Slim supports?

[@deborahberi3249]

Can't seem to find the Neptune 3/3+...? Any idea how to get one? -Mark.

[@devonjacobs450]

Hi Uncle jessy and everyone else. I have a quick question about the elegoo neptune 3. I got two used from an associate of mine and one prints marvelous, but the other doesn't print, and I discovered that the PTFE in the hotend is bad. I'm curious if there is an alternative to it or the hotend assembly for repair or replacement sense elegoo doesn't offer spare parts for their FDM printers that I know of.

[@CharliePorter]

I downloaded the newest release and I don't see tree supports anywhere. Anyone know how to enable them? I'm running an Elegoo 4 Pro (but I don't see them under any profiles!). HELP! LOL

[@snowwolvesproductions]

I'm having issues with some of the tree supports failing. Overall they work great and cut time to print. Perhaps I need some adjustments to rise over supports or ? Help?

[@snowwolvesproductions]

Btw using an Anycubic Chiron 4mm nozzle. Modified cr10s profile. Thanks

[@fullstoplx5574]

Hey Jessy, did you change any settings on the default Neptune 3 Plus profile as I’ve got some stringing and you haven’t.

[@ScytheNoire]

I gave 2.6 and the organic supports a try. A container print that had a 6h40m print time with rectangular supports grew to over 10h with tree supports. Its not the best option for everything.

[@PandaPeej]

That's how all tools are though right? The best hammer still isn't going to weld very well.

[@ChaosSaotome]

Do you have anything on changing a nozzle on an FDM printer? I recently got my first print in a Neptune 3 Pro but was thinking about possibly swapping out the nozzle for a .6mm one but I’m hesitant in attempting it without seeing the proper way.

[@Lurker1222]

How do you even get an elegoo Neptune 3 pro they have been sold out everywhere for a long time..

[@Linili89]

How can I set up my Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro in the prusa slicer? I cant find any settings that are working 🙄

[@techsaint121]

Does this work on resin printers?

[@brendanarmstrong7802]

I'm a multi-year Lychee Slicer fan with a bunch of resin printers who just picked up a Neptune 3 Pro and has been finding the shift a little frustrating. I tried letting Lychee autosupport a dinosaur skull recently and it ended up being impossible to remove the supports at all. Do you think I should give prusa slicer a try, or should I keep trying with Lychee?

[@DodgyDave]

Can you open the stl in Prusa Slicer, add the text , export the stl and slice with Chitu or Lychee ?

[@UncleJessy]

Negative 😭

[@trebory6]

So I literally used these supports yesterday and they were godawful to take off. My model still has them attached. Did you have to mess with your support settings?

[@nerdiestthingon2wheels]

Any support for the Ankermake M5?

[@snowwolvesproductions]

Is there any way to set a z hop in prusa 2.6.0 my nozzle is knocking down some of the tree supports. Otherwise they are wonderful!!!

[@com34x]

It is in there. I think it is called retraction

[@rickyyym]

is this better than the trees on cura ?

[@PieFlavouredPii]

Been loving these tree support with cura ngl 💪😁

[@stealtheo]

I thought you have a Bambu X1 Carbon and a P1P They both offer tree supports In the Bambu Slicer

[@NathanielTeel]

Thanks so much for sharing this update! As a newer 3D printer, some of the processes you are describing went over my head. Any chance you might share a tutorial video on how you manually added your supports on that mask? You'd mentioned some extra tools you used that I'm not familiar with, unfortunately.

[@rebeltaz123]

Cura has had tree supports since before v4.8 and I agree, they are awesome. A lot of times, they come out looking like little hands holding the print! I almost want to leave them in place, they look so cool. Oh, and they work great, too :)

[@darklordofapathy]

I'm using 2.6 also but my supports don't come off nearly as well. What settings do you use to get them to pop off so easily?

[@redkingrauri3769]

Hey just a heads up, the Amazon link to the pro plus takes you to the neptune 2. Elegoo seemed to have removed all the 3s and pro models from Amazon recently. I'm printing a Red Hood helmet with these right now. It shaved off over 8 hours from the initial attempt with normal supports even with thinner layer lines.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Great to see the Elegoo support.. now if they could just add support for the Elegoo Resin printers...

[@lewiscantplay8639]

You still got your two Neptune 2’s?

[@ippaku]

Great video this is one of my concerns with the bamboo X one carbon because it doesn’t use other slicers so how long will it take them to adapt. I was hoping to get one so I could be printing the Kickstarter game boards to just completed campaign that you featured help me speed up in prison. But now I’m thinking just use my max for a while and see how that goes don’t know. Be well be you

[@riakata]

Pretty sure the bambo slicer is based on prusa slicer and prusa slicer is based off slick3r and cura updates with tuning for the organic tree supports. So it shouldn't be very hard for them to implement the same lighweight tree supports (It actually already has it but its not quite as handy as Prusa slicer's alpha version) It would be great if they could also allow you to mask off the triangles for the plane cut like meshmixer as it can do it but the UI and process is very annoying as Autodesk just wants you to buy fusion 360 licenses now and stopped updating mesh mixer ages ago.

[@IshamPadron]

I love Simplify3d but after no updates for ages and then the price increase on the new one I had to say goodbye to it. Prusa seemed intimidating at first but after a little while I got the hang of it. Still don't like the interface and wish it would fill the screen better. The ability to connect directly to Klipper sold me. Now with tree supports, there's no going back.

[@bruceyoung1343]

Just DL’d 2.6. Thank You for how to get organic support.

[@djreducer]

The network engineer in me compels me to say the 10gig NICs are my favorite. But the Max Voltage flag is awesome. Awesome name too.

[@95jackstar]

Hey Jesse great video which really got me to try out Prusa slicer finally! I was wondering, I can't seem to get my settings to have a solid top to the supports that just breaks away like yours does so i end up with a lot of filament left from the supports on the body of the print, do you have any advice or note which settings I can change to help fix this?

[@Atmoseeker]

An added bonus is those tree supports look like they could be modified for some rad tabletop gaming tree terrain.

[@cywulf01]

I've been hearing a lot about the latest update to Prusa slicer and implementation of organic supports. I've never used Prusa slicer but i have Cura and Bambu Studio. Both of these have tree supports as well, so what is so different about the organic supports in Prusa slicer? Did PS not have tree supports before?

[@smartid3902]

nothing, prusa is like iphone, they come up with something that others had for some time and call it inovation

[@mynameisdex8785]

how do i download prusaslicer 2.6 tho i have the .zip downloaded from the github but i cant figure out how to put the file into prusaslicer can someone plz help?

[@bernardtarver]

4:22 Can't see whatsoever how those supported areas of the print look.

[@michaelsch1339]

I was expecting something like that in Simplify3d v5, after years of "developing". But super that this cool features will be available in Prisa Slicer soon :)

[@felrod8409]

Link for the glue you are using....

[@dkdevil3490]

3 years ago you did a video comparing an fdm print to an sla print, both on a $200 machine. I’d love to see an updated version of that. I’m eager for the day where I can get comparable detail to sla on a far less annoying to use fdm printer~

[@hasserecht3678]

Treesupports are something new?

[@UncleJessy]

In Prusa slicer… yep, they’ve had some options for this in Cura

[@cryofpaine]

What would be nice is to have the pins attach to one side, so that you don't have holes in both, and separate pins. Give the blade the pins, and the hilt the holes.

[@drxym]

Tree supports are great so I'm glad they ported them from Cura. I like Cura's features better than Prusa but Prusa starts so much more quickly than Cura.

[@trippinonaduck1379]

S3d v6 with tree supports when?

[@QuiltersHandyman]

of course I am here a little late....I have used Simplify 3D for serveral years now and did not upgrade back when v5 came out. Decided today to finally up grade and find out the $59 upgrade. is now $69 .... nope...V4 works OK for now. I have been trying to use Prusa slicer and am now going work harder at it.....

[@tonykyle2655]

does 2.6 support Klipper?

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

What's that supposed to mean? You can use Prusa slicer to generate gcode for machines running klipper since an eternity. Just choose marlin as a flavor. I am uploading directly to my voron 2.4 since years.

[@tonykyle2655]

@@runklestiltskin_2407 SuperSlicer, in output, has a klipper selection. Otherwise the slicer generates gcode for Marlin firmware. Was looking to see if Klipper was "natively"" supported.

[@TheHelpMaster]

@@tonykyle2655 it probably only optimizes small things for klipper like macros etc. Ive used Marlin Flavor since i installer klipper and had no issues

[@tonykyle2655]

@@TheHelpMaster I too have used PrusaSlicer and Cura for the v400 which runs Klipper. Was only asking a question. Is it wrong to ask a question?

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

@@tonykyle2655 I have not found one downside from changing from superslicer to prusa slicer. Just saying, the gcode flavor doesn't really matter.

[@dloaf101]

thats crazy crazy crazy, also CRAZY!

[@LampDoesVideogame]

I've been using tree supports in Meshmixer for years. Tbh, it's still better than either tree supports, cura or prusa.

[@ThePattyChuck]

I'm just here to say how jealous I am of your Neptune 3 Max... I refresh their page like every two hours to see if they're taking orders again.

[@lacalaverastl8361]

I don't like supports at all but this Tree Supports looks like a great upgrade !! gonna start using Prusa Slicer a lot more

[@oh5148]

My fave supports