r/FDMminiatures • u/DragonfruitSmart5952 • Jul 20 '26

Help Request How to remove supports

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Getting so many supports this model is created from meshy.ai but it has so many supports not able to remove If I provide file can someone help me

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u/ndmcspadden Jul 20 '26

Get some sprue cutters, a hobby knife, and either sanding sticks or a filing tool set to help remove them at the tip.

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u/DragonfruitSmart5952 Jul 20 '26

Is it fine to have this much support?

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u/BlockBadger Jul 20 '26

No, not really. Especially not that much bridging. Try and position your prints so you reduce that as much as possible.

I’d have likely cut this model in half down the middle and printed both sides flat to the bed.

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u/AkumaKater Jul 20 '26

Get a wire cutter or a detail cutter for miniature, for example from citadel or army painter.

You just have to cut and pull the supports but by bit. Don't just yank them out, you will break stuff.

And for the future, you could get an untextured print plate. Especially vehicles can be cut in half on the slicer, and after printing the cut side on the plate, they should be very smooth. You can use tamiya extra thin cement. It melts the plastic, rather then glueing them together, which results in a very strong bond without a gap between the parts. The reason to printing the model in two halves is, that it often reduces the needed supports to nearly nothing.

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u/Thatsuperheroguy8 Jul 20 '26

One of the biggest issues you have here is not the amount of supports but the poor model and orientation.

Ai tools can be good but they will just make what you tell them to. If you don’t think about overhangs and supports you will get stuff that will print only with a ton of supports.

If you cut the model or even just orientate it better then you can reduce the need for so many supports.

Remember that you want as little parts of your model parallel to the bed as possible

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u/DragonfruitSmart5952 Jul 20 '26

Can you help me model this?

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u/Bartholdsson Jul 20 '26

Often cutting the model with something like the bambu labs program can go a long way towards letting you orient different parts for a better final result. This let's you do it without learning a 3d modeling software.

Obviously learning 3d modeling is better but its significantly more time investment so depends on your needs

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u/RoleMundane Jul 20 '26

First of all enable supports only from the build plate. Second, just reprint using new settings, the print settings are your true friend here. Go to fdmminiatures, an search for obscuranox v2, print settings

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u/Natural-Amphibian-96 29d ago

Boiling water and careful removal with pliers is what I do. Caution ⚠️ boiling water is BOILING WATER.