Summary

This 3 Gear demo shows how Palette+ can enable your single extruder printer to create models using dissolvable supports.

Printed in one piece, the gears move once the water-soluble supports have been removed.

Edit: See print settings! Will run into issues if not printed well, and may take some experimentation.

Print Settings

Supports:

Yes

                                            <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong>                     <div><p>15%</p></div></p>                                                        <br>                        <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong>                    </p><div><p>We used 25% infill and 2-3 shells for the PLA.</p><p>For the soluble support, we went with 0 bottom layers, 15% infill, 1 top layer, and 1 shell. We allowed the water-soluble support (in this case, Scaffold) to dissolve for 2 days, after which we used a knife to carefully scoop it out. Not all solubles take this long to dissolve; this was a test to learn how to print with Scaffold.</p><p>The key takeaway here is that water-soluble supports are not magical; it takes some effort and experimentation to learn how to print with them effectively.</p></div>

Multi-Color Dissolvable Gears