PrusaSlicer Organic support excessive retract/detract

Can we have an option to just disable retraction for supports

Or at least have supports show as a different object so that I can apply modifiers to it For example here there are maybe 70-100 retractions and the model has maybe 10. https://i.imgur.com/CCAcbfU.jpg

Its completely unnecessary as the supports break off easily regardless and when printing around this you can repeatedly hear retractions every half second.

Feb 17 '23 15:02 kris2340k

Already had a jammed nozzle because of that many retractions.

Feb 17 '23 16:02 foreachthing

Small organic branches would be imho often heavily underextruded after longer nonretracted travel, especially on bowden setups.

Maybe some "minimal distance for retraction within supports" setting would work universally for everyone.

Feb 17 '23 17:02 rtyr

Yeah im not asking for mandatory retractions, just an option. It just takes so much time + motor movement vs printing the model. You can have a 20s layer and 1m40 just retracting on the supports

Feb 17 '23 21:02 kris2340k

Yes just giving this a try myself and this print definitely looks like it is going to be a hot mess of retractions with PETG to support a large flat surface.

Feb 18 '23 15:02 KrisWragg

Backing up this one, have been looking for this option and thus came to post a request here.

May 09 '23 16:05 jokohoko

Confirming the issue here. Because of so many retractions in a short time, the extruder gear grips the same part of the filament over and over again which eventually strips filament causing a failed print.