A picture's worth a 1,000 words. Here's the front door with the new setup. You can immediately see that both the number of supports AND where they're connected is significantly better than my first attempt. There are very few in the delicate demilune window area, and those that are much smaller. The door knobs did form, but their shafts were too fragile and they left. I will go back to plan B to make them out of brass.
Compare the above to the first attempt. By having the positioning very vertical I was able to limit the supports since the piece self-supports as it grows. I also fixed the missing panel. In the slicer, when you view the object from the underside, shows in bright red areas that will be unsupported. You need to put supports there. Also, you can move the layers up and down and see where the contour lines come together in an unsupported point. That point would be an island and fail. I also have another piece of software that evaluates the sliced object, layer by layer, and points out explicitly where an island will form and identifies the layer number. You go back in the slicer, dial it to the that layer and watch the island form by cycling forward on the layer slider. You can then put or maneuver support to those spots so the print will be successful. It's very detailed oriented and takes a lot of patience.
As a result, here's the finished product. I even got the door's hinge bar formed correctly and glued it to the frame with Bondic. When gluing resin to resin, Bondic is the best since it's the same material so you're effectively welding them together. It will be fun to have a building with the door open, welcoming visitors in.
I'm running another triple set of railings. This will be the final iteration. I've perfected the setup and fixed all the drawing errors. Again, the setup is very tall and vertical so it self-supports. This way I was able to almost have no big supports in the baluster area. Because of the verticality, it's taking 10 hours to print. Remember, it's not how much surface area on the build plate that determines print time. It's number of layers = height, plus individual layer height and layer exposure. If I printed in 10 microns and 10 seconds a layer it would take 16 hours to print. This print will be done at 10:30 tonight. I'm not going to run anything more during the weekend. I'll need one more run to get the total railings I need for the building. I then go back and finish printing Mansard windows (need 5 more) and main windows (need a ton more).
Everyone have a nice, quiet, socially distant, weekend.
