Yes , it's called a Raft. And I check the box for supports of overhangs more that 45 degrees. I have had near perfect success since I have used rafts.

So the raft is like the first few layers to be printed then. I can see several advantages to that. Thanks for giving out all of the info and tips.

Alright I'm done for the night this is the progress picture of the plexiglass case I put together. I still need to do three things tommorow. Clean up the edges, back spray a border in black around the edges of plexiglass and add some weather stripping to fill the gap between the glass and case. That way I can keep around 90 percent of the warm air in the case and keep cool air out.

I used the 1 inch foam and a hot knife to carve a giant gasket to lift the top plexiglass out of the way of the extruder and filament feeding in. Once I had the carved price I painted it black with acrylic paint using a brush. Unfortunately spray paint will easily melt the foam.

I've heard that Krylon H2o Latex Spray Paint works on foam but I bet that would stick to the glass even after drying.

Ok so here is today's print. It's the biggest thing I have tried so far. The ironman suite hand

I can't wait to see how that prints out. I love this thread.

A couple more questions. Where did you get yours? On the Solidoodle website it mentions open source software but I can't find the software anywhere on the site. What software does it use? It says you have to download it, that there is no disk, but no info on where to download said software. What am I missing?

that print is going to take a while. But, you have done good so far.

to solidoodle sw

@Antron007 here the link.

:) j