Special thin raft to safe material and have adhesion.

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Hey printer buddys. I had the intention to share my idea to safe some material while enjoying the results. After i pissed away about 6-10% material on printing raft under a part, i came up with the idea to design a 0.6mm thin supoort layer. For my prints that worked well. I use a Ender 3 pro and the adavantage of that easy printer is you can lift the "X" axis slightly from hand. Just about 0,2-0,4mm so the plastic sausage get sprayed/layed perfect on the bed. I got away from place a paper under the nozzle to complicated. Grab the x axis bar and lift until perfect easyier it wont get. The left two screws to lift or lever the bed on the left side i have to use so the bed gets a flat surface, off course that will not change. Yes the part has to be placed on or in the featherthin raft but i rather los 1-2 layers 0,6mm of a part, then 8-10% raft extrusioned plastic waste. But i just lift the "X" axis as i go. Why i do that? I often change the printer adjustments especialy extrusion and line print width that infulences the sausage that gets extruded. I use a hot bed with a simple glasssheet 2mm thick, without any adhesives succsesfully. Under the part adjustments you can change the size of the featherthin raft.