Organic Supports - Nature's Temple

What happens if you take a classical building and remove the classical columns?

PrusaSlicer's answer to this question leads to a wonderful juxtaposition of clean geometric shapes and complex organic forms.

Out of evenly spaced identical circles grow trees with individual shapes one unlike another. They reach up not just to hold up the roof but to protrude into it.

What does this represent to you? Is it something right out of a fantasy novel? Or a sculpture representing the interplay between humanity and nature? In any case, let me know in the comments!

Printer Settings

Since we don't want to remove the organic supports we need to tweak a few settings:

• Support material
  • First layer density
  • Top contact Z distance: 0
  • XY separation: 0
• Advanced
  • Extrusion width → Support material: same as default

To ensure the trees grow only from where they are supposed to set supports to “Support on build plate only”. Sometimes the slicer will still generate trees from outside the base. In that case you can tweak the “Preferred Branch Angle” and re-slice the model.

I have added the G-code I used for my Ender 3 S1 Pro. If you are using another printer or different settings, please feel free to share your G-Code after a successful print.

Notes

Even with the right settings the whole object is pretty fragile, especially when printed in Silk PLA. Make sure to let your bed cool down completely and wait for the model to pop off on its own.

The main weak points appear to be where the trees attach to the ground. Put a bit of superglue or epoxy into the holes to strengthen them.