The Moment I Knew Something Was Wrong

Two weeks ago, I pulled a 12-hour print off my build plate. The model was beautiful. And 35% of the filament I paid for was sitting in the trash — twisted, snapped, and sanded-off support structures that had done their job and become instant waste.

I'd been printing for years. I knew supports were "necessary evil." But then I started noticing something: every slicer on the market — Cura, PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio — uses the same algorithm to decide where supports go. A simple angle threshold. If a face is steeper than 45°, slap supports everywhere beneath it. No per-geometry intelligence. No optimization. Just brute force.

So I built a tool that finally asks the right questions.…