TrestleFDM grows sturdy filament trees under your miniature and lets them touch it only through a fine resin-style tip. They hold every overhang and snap off with a tiny mark. Export a 3MF and print it in any slicer.
Instant download · No install · Works with Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer and Cura
FDM supports are strong but leave scars. Resin supports leave tiny marks but snap on a filament printer. TrestleFDM combines the two.
Strong, but wide contact areas leave rough patches on faces, fingers and hair.
Tiny marks, but long thin pins break as soon as the nozzle brushes them.
Thick filament trunks and branches, and only the last fraction of a millimetre is a fine tip.
Every default was measured on real slicer G-code and test prints, not guessed.
Branches merge into trunks that thicken as they descend, on wide feet that do not snap at the base. Only the tip is thin.
The print is simulated layer by layer like your slicer does: every spot where an arm, a hand, a chin or a cloak edge starts in the air gets a contact, and nothing is left floating.
Inside a mouth, between teeth or under a chin, a support can stand on the model. It ends on a fine tip too, so it leaves only a small mark.
Left click to add a point and right click to remove one, with a live preview of the pin. Undo and redo cover every step.
Find the best face to lay the model on, rotate it with handles, scale it in mm or %, and repair broken meshes in one click.
Exports one 3MF with the model, supports and raft. In Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer the supports bring their own print settings. Opens in PrusaSlicer and Cura too.
Open a model, generate, and check every support in a fast 3D viewer that handles millions of triangles.
A closer look at what TrestleFDM does for your miniatures, and what you can control.
Click Find best faces and TrestleFDM ranks the ways your figure can sit on the plate, by overhang, height and stability. Double click a face to lay the model on it, or tilt it back by hand with the rotate handles, the way you would for a resin print.
Contact points start from the same overhang area Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer support, and spread evenly over it. Then the model and the supports are sliced together the way your slicer does it, and any piece left floating gets a branch or a pin.
Turn on Contact dots to see every point colour-coded by the reason it is there, with a key and a count for each colour.
The Basic tab covers what most prints need: overhang angle, density, trunk thickness, raft and whether supports may stand on the model.
Found settings that work for your printer? Save them as a preset and share the file with a friend. The Advanced tab opens every engine setting, and changed values turn amber.
No Blender, no add-ons, no setup. Unzip and run.
STL, OBJ or 3MF. Pick the 0.2 or 0.4 mm nozzle preset and a density: Light, Normal or Dense.
Usually under half a minute, even on detailed miniatures. Add or remove points by hand if you want.
Export a 3MF, or open it straight in Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer or Cura. Keep the slicer's own supports off.
If a spot would print in the air, TrestleFDM marks it in red and tells you why. Some spots can only be held by a support standing on the model, and the status bar offers to fix them in one click.
Straight off the printer, then with the supports snapped off. Printed on a Bambu Lab A1 mini with a 0.2 mm nozzle.
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No. TrestleFDM is a standalone Windows program. It only needs your slicer to print the file it exports.
Any slicer that opens 3MF or STL. It is tested with Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer and UltiMaker Cura. In Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer the supports and raft also bring their own print settings. Turn off the slicer's own supports, because the supports are already in the file.
Yes. Pick the 0.4 preset and TrestleFDM sizes the tips and the layer check for that nozzle (0.12 mm layers by default). The 0.2 preset is for the finest miniatures.
Windows 10 or 11. There is nothing to install: unzip and run TrestleFDM.exe. A graphics card makes the viewer smoother, but it is not required.
Not yet. TrestleFDM is Windows only for now.
Yes. Every 1.x update is free for everyone who bought TrestleFDM: download the new version from your Gumroad library. If a 2.0 with a big change ever comes, existing buyers get a heavy discount.