I decided to start printing these two parts first, the lower body and the head. after setting up the print i leave it over night, taking 13 hours to finish.
you see those vertical columns? those are the support structures i metioned in the first post. the slicing software creates these so that the printer can deal with Overhangs and Shallow Angles. Support helps the printer print these details, but after printing, these peices are useless and must be removed. this is a pain in the ass sometimes! some, especialy pieces on internal areas such as an open mouth, are incredibly difficult to remove. you have to be a surgeon and cut them out of the inside of the model.
when slicing the model, you dont want to create too much support material for three reasons. one, it wastes filament. two, the less material you have to remove, the easier your life will be when removing it. and three, support material can leave a rough surface on your print where it touches the model. these rough spots ruin paintjobs.
when we split the model, it helps us keep the amount of support material under our control, allowing us to position the parts in such a way that the ammount of support needed is minimized. it also allows us to control where the support attaches to the model. for instance, you dont want support material sticking to the face of the character, because the face has many small details that would be ruined by the rough surface support material leaves behind. this is especialy bad because the face is the first thing everyone looks at. this is why the head is facing up, so that the support will be created on the back of the head, where there's not much detail.
so far, if you dont count the time spent modeling, we have:
-6 hours preparing the model for printing.
-13 hours of printing just two of the parts.
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