Using Chitubox Part 5: Supporting the Umber Hulk (arms)

Advanced techniques on a more difficult part of the model, step by step and with nifty tricks on display. Watching this should help you on supporting almost any miniature you run across.
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[@Malcrom1967]

All my miniature prints were crap before watching this video. I just finally had a good one. Thank you sir.

[@Mike-ck6jh]

Just finished watching your first five videos as I was told this is required before printing my first model on my own. Wow, I printed a Mad Cat Mech and it turned out flawless thanks to your help. My very first print was the test rook you get on the USB stick - my second print was this mech and all I have to say is holy cow, thanks for your help - now I need to watch your videos on hollowing out, and interior supports / drain holes.

[@Mike-ck6jh]

Thank you so much for your work...

[@morturn]

My first 3D printer arrived today. I am so glad I came across these videos before I started printing. You really have made a very important part of the printing process understandable and logical. Thank you.

[@InterstellarModeler]

thanks again for your videos....I'm becoming more confident with printing because of them

[@J0SHUAKANE]

i love the emphasis on making sure you take your time & do it right the first time. also to do as much prep work as possible to do as little rework as possible. i feel like these philosophies make your tutorials a level above most others.

[@keaganmalachi7343]

Pro tip: you can watch movies at KaldroStream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies recently.

[@ariesskylar489]

@Keagan Malachi Definitely, been watching on Kaldrostream for months myself :D

[@felixthecrazy]

You are an absolute rock star. only printed 2 resin prints so far, and used your workflow on the second. Came out amazing. Thank you for sharing!

[@fco.javieralvarez4556]

Great, excellent, very clear and illustrative video series. Thanks a lot for sharing!!

[@pint-sizedprops2414]

I attempted my first model print the other day before finding these videos. My son's Mando turned into a puddle of beskar on my FEP 😫 After watching, my second attempt came out with one minor flaw because I didn't listen and thought "this should be fine". Thank you VERY much for the awesome videos and so much useful info! My prints would be a literal mess otherwise

[@skyatlas7334]

Didn't really understand supports (besides the obvious) until I watched these, thanks!

[@garyanji3314]

Thanks man! You just turned a "I'm happy with a 60% success rate" into a 100% success rate. These tutorials are definitive! I've just printed a bunch of models that I could never get a good print from totally successfully. Keep em' coming!

[@JML1987]

I have a Phrozen Sonic Mini arriving tomorrow and I'm trying to learn as much as possible so I can dive right in. I'm skipping the auto supports and going straight for your techniques!

[@Ulfhednosh]

Thank you for these videos! Glad u watched them before I started printing like a mad man and possibly getting bad prints.

[@kaywoodparsons7967]

super good tutorial! I just got my Anycubic photon 4k. I just deleted the model I was about to print lol. yeah it would have been a disaster after seeing this. I definetaly didn't have enough supports

[@shawnkratos1347]

we where pretty close on settings, and on par for how to place, but man your settings for light supports have changed my prints. makes it a lot easier to remove with almost no clean up. i throw it in some warm water and they just fall off my prints. love it.

[@3dprintingpro212]

great glad I could help!

[@jakesells2379]

Thank you so much for these videos! Not all heroes wear capes. :-)

[@warbear3d]

can we see the support settings on top middle bottom and raft for light medium and heavy?

[@HeroOfTheWeb]

I did that exact "inspect a failed model" on a black templar with insane detail and lots of little things on it. Right now I'm trying to do supports for it, but because there is so much detail, it's a bit overwhelming.

[@alexandrebelisle7664]

your videos are AWESOME!!!! Even if i'm just starting to get into the 3D printing world they are real Gems, you explained well, make a lot of sense and a hole lot more. Please continue to bestow upon me your awesome experince :)

[@TD3DMakes]

Man, my first print on my Mars next week is going to be sweet :) I've redone the same model 4 or 5 times now using your first 4 videos in the series. On to the next. Really awesome stuff, thanks again for sharing.

[@lawrencedubowitz4563]

Thank you for eloquently articulating the subject matter and not dumbing it down so as to accommodate the intellectual porosity of the general population...

[@rickl9462]

I hope you can save these setups once you have everything set the way you want.

[@kevincaska6691]

Ever spend 30 minutes getting your supports just right, just about to do some final editing and then hit the remove all button?!?!? Grr! Anyway, thanks for the tutorials, I’ve spent hours google searching and YouTubing surfing to find a series just like what you put together. After several failed prints with few successes in-between I am really trying to dig in and get a solid understanding of this support science.

[@thedarkapostle6025]

Love the vids, they're full of great info as a new user who's waiting for there Photon to get here in the mail. I was wondering what validator programs you could recommend for a new user? Thanks so much.

[@Zen_Modeling]

90% of all the Prints I'll be doing are 1:24 scale Auto Models Parts, so I'm thinking that the level & amount of supports you have added & the level of detail of the figures you mostly print will not needed or necessary- Or what do You think?? Thanks - i've been viewing every video & taking notes, as your a Great Prof ;-) Lee

[@jrsilverdragon]

What happens if you stick to the fep and fail to print an the first few layers. I after watching these last 2 videos I changed up supports a lot and my last print of 8 minis 6 came out great 2 didn't printat all but there is a layer or 2 stuck to the fep of the resivoir

[@InfoSecDaddy]

This has turned in to my single goto 3D printing Ph.D class.

[@readywhen]

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[@jessejohnson5673]

Great Videos, loving the insight into proper orientation and supports. I do have a question though... You mention "validators" to find the islands for support placement. Have any links to these? Thanks, and looking forward to more. Subcribed!

[@3dprintingpro212]

search Photon Validator and you should find it easily :)

[@rorykostman5609]

What about inverting the model vertically? It puts supports onto the top shell, so more visible, *BUT* the rest of the model seems to flow better inverted

[@liameleven]

Hi! Question for you: Do you run your slices through UV Tools or something similar? At one point would you consider a model passable? I end up having some slices with a few sub 100 pixel islands and the prints end up just fine, but im worried if i need to more aggressively work those down.

[@susanatwood7963]

I hate to admit this, but I am still struggling. I am actually trying to print "cracked dice" and the 4D as well as the 6D just keep failing on me and I am trying your method, but I am still unsure as to where to place the different supports. Could you help me with this by chance?

[@HLSnake]

Love watching this videos or listening while I try my hand at supports! Couple newbie questions you may have answered in other videos. Any tips and tricks for minis where the figure is bending forward 90 degrees and in your video with the goblin mini, any tips on when you decide to merge your supports into the one big support? I don't have a printer yet but my co-worker prints files I drop in his inbox so I try to make it easy on him.

[@GeneralKetchup57]

If you have a support fail (used light when should have been heavy) do you have to resupport the whole miniature or can you modify the existing photon file? I haven't had any luck calling in a .photon file and adding/changing supports.

[@3dprintingpro212]

I save it as a Chitubox project before I save it as a photon file so I can reload the project when I need to correct supports

[@GeneralKetchup57]

@@3dprintingpro212 Thanks!

[@avakinkobe224]

Hi , I'm a little confused. The head was cut and keyed, why weren't the arms and legs for easier printing and orientation.

[@johnwilson7701]

I have a Kelant S400S 3D printer and does not recognize the file format " Unknown File Format" from the included Chitubox software. I've updated, and I still cant get it to recognize the saved"sliced" files to print? any suggestions?

[@J0SHUAKANE]

I just checked this out for ya. in a video titled "ChiTuBox 1.5.0 - Kelant S400" it says you have to save it as a zip file after you slice it.

[@johnwilson7701]

@@J0SHUAKANE ty! yes I read that too. and it's still not recognized

[@J0SHUAKANE]

@@johnwilson7701 this might seem odd, but have you tried a different usb stick? I mean, idk your situation, thats just what i would do. If you are still having issues.

[@Gies84]

i have the problem that my 0,12 Supports ar not printing at all however i seem to not be able to figure out why should i increase the exposure time ?

[@drekol1201]

Next question...and may be an arbitrary one. How many minis do you get approximately from each bottle? Just trying to get an idea of how many to order to start off with.

[@3dprintingpro212]

Tough one to answer because the size of each mini matters...normal D&D size player character minis I would think easily 50 per 500 ml of resin, maybe even more

[@Qalat85]

One doubt about "hidden" island and it's location. I use to run Photon File Validator after placing the supports and slicing the model. It's repair function tells in which layer the island is but sometimes is hard to go to the (for example) layer 546 to locate it using the Chitubox slider. It's exist any trick or function to place the slider in that particular layer? Once again, great videos, you're the boss!!

[@3dprintingpro212]

Once you get close you can use the "up" or "down" arrow keys to get precisely to the layer you want to :)

[@liquidweird6055]

It looks like you do something similar to my last comment. Yours seems to be for precise positioning and I'm doing the same support stacking/deleting to get rid of the model to model ones like you get on chins and hair/horns/helmets etc.

[@Mr_Chuckles]

I find it a big time saver to just use the auto supports then edit them...

[@3dprintingpro212]

for me it wastes time :( It places in lots of spots I don't want, and misses a lot of spots I do want...

[@mrchoochoohead9033]

what validator programs are there to identify missed islands?

[@3dprintingpro212]

Photon Validator, there is a new one looks very promising called UVTools

[@mrchoochoohead9033]

@@3dprintingpro212 thanks ill check that out. just got my epax x1 as my first printer and am building an extractor hood to vent everything out my window.

[@DraconisLupus]

Watching your stuff has made me realize that I would really like doing this and will have to get into this. Also on the claw could you put several lights on the claw itself and then put a medium or heavy or two where the claw meets the carapace? Would this support the arm and still keep the point and edge of the claw from being damaged as much?

[@scottyk996]

Is there a place where I can pay someone to support a few files? Mostly so I have references

[@3dprintingpro212]

I have a few free ones on thingiverse, under Artisan Guild (the Jurakin model), and under Dopaminis (Ogre file)

[@mylesmarcovitch7771]

I'm only into ChiTuBox for a little over a month. How are you able to rotate around the model like that? All I see to be able to do is the L, F T controls. It makes it very hard to add supports.

[@3dprintingpro212]

Right click and hold to rotate, also left click and hold to move the plate

[@mylesmarcovitch7771]

@@3dprintingpro212 Of course, once I saw you orbiting, I also assumed there must be a way to do it. It turns out using the two-fingered pad move rotates on my MacBook Pro. Not the easiest of maneuvers but it gets the job done. I was hating that I could never see the other side of the object when deciding if the supports were right. Now I can.

[@sowhat3669]

What kind of glue do you use for attach the 3 d print?

[@Slabri]

supports are so easy, just place them in red spots to start and then slowly scroll lvl by lvl making sure there are no islands, and if there is, support it. Idk how people have trouble with this xD

[@malefactorprophet]

Have you posted your support settings anywhere? I’d love to see the data. Thanks

[@3dprintingpro212]

yep there's a vid for it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZupZmeJe8aAd7M&t

[@alexdumitras7586]

One question for you mate. On rounded surfaces to you see layers??... i’m so confused and kinda stress as on some models on rounded surfaces i can see the layers... kills me😭

[@ianpayne2284]

how would you feel about the idea of sending you files and see how you support them?

[@3dprintingpro212]

I think I'd have hundreds of files sent to me lol. What I will be doing is posting at least 1 video a week where I just support an entire model.

[@lolitis01]

Why not save a ton of time by using auto support then checking it and adding your own supports?

[@3dprintingpro212]

I think auto support is so bad that's not a time saver for me :)

[@walt_man]

HEY! Where's part 6!?

[@blaine3193]

Myself and a coworker bought the Photon and he turned me on to your videos. You ever find yourself supporting a support tree just for the added heft stability? Is that just overkill?

[@3dprintingpro212]

yep it's my my video on advanced support techniques

[@aaronbono4688]

Why don't these models come with proper supports to begin with? This is a hell of a lot of work and it looks like it's going to take a lot of time to learn how to do.

[@DisgruntledPigumon]

I love your videos, you're very careful and thorough. One thing though... it's "a failure", there is no such thing as "a fail". Don't let dumb internet memes twist your knowledge of your own language. 😀😉

[@pariahdog6703]

typical lawyer... ramble for 20mins and all the important stuff took 5 mins to lay. Nice way to pad the video length though.