Do you have a 3D printer?

@Faust76 Thinking of replacing it with a dual extruder since this one can only print one type of filament at a time, so wasting the expensive filament on the throw-away supports.

@TeirdalinFirefall Not long ago I read a long article explaining that dual extruders don't make sense, which I'd tend to agree with. At least last I checked the filaments were same price anyway, but have different printing properties and need extremely precise alignment not to ruin the whole print. That said, I didn't find printing tools very useful for creating cut-away supports and they tend to fuse together...

3D printer we use at work uses super-poisonous chemicals for cleaning out the support, requiring industrial fume hood & chemical safety gear, although I guess most of them are just water-soluble.

@Faust76 Set the support width to about 1/3rd or so of the defaults and they come right off fairly smoothly. For supports to not be the same material as the base model it NEEDs a dual extruder to begin with. xD

Also they are not the same price, you can get amazon basics for cheap bulk but is lower quality.

Also with a dual extruder you can use transparent, wooden or metallic filament as well with the model alongside cheap supports, and the specialty filaments go for about 30-40+.

@TeirdalinFirefall Yeah, the ability to use two different final materials in non-horizontal slices is only reason I'd really consider dual extruder. Never forget you can generally just swap the filament mid-print, and often printing interlocking parts separately in different materials is better too, though.

@Faust76 Swapping mid print sounds like it requires absurd timing and effort considering it's still printing a layer at a time and you have to constantly stop, remove the spool, thread in a new spool, etc between every layer.

But true printing separately is a good idea but not always the best.

But then also, I rather use a $10 bulk filament as the supports instead of the $40 small spool of specialty filament.