Hey, for rotating the helmet in the beginning you can use the "select face to align to the build plate" tool under the rotation tab in Cura, which makes it basically perfectly flat on the bed if you click on the face you want to put on the build plate, I also regularly turn off the "Uniform Scaling " under the size tab to only have to use one support blocker for irregular shapes, like the top of the helmet you had to use 4 for. Hope this helps you out!

Fantastic video. Had no idea cure had support blockers

you have been the single best source of 3d printing cosplay and finishing that I have found on the internet. even going as far as answering my questions individually on your videos. thank you so much, I know you are going to blow up and become one of the go-to places for this info online and when that happens you totally deserve it.

Vaultfox, you are now my official 3D printing guru queen!!! Thank you so much!! I am 103 hours into a Mando helmet, with full support (the pain) and just came across your video. I can't believe I could have saved almost 700 grams of filament just with the dome supports gone LOL!!! Like you said, there is sooo much to learn in this hobby. And just as a side note, as a 40's male I found your video unbelievably clear and easy to follow, and you being "a woman" actually made it easier for me to understand. I find a lot of the other channels I check out they (men) talk as if I should already know most of the lingo and terms lol. Cant wait to see what else I can learn from your channel! Keep it up!

Thank you,I have just started cosplay helmets for my daughter and was wasting so much filament on supports ,great help xx

Just come across your videos as I am about to start printing Mando armor for me and my son and I cannot be more thankful for the information you have given. :)

I just got into 3D printing recently and have plans to make a clone helmet and your channel has been super helpful! So glad I found it

I was having so much trouble navigating through cura and doing everything you just did in this video. Learned so much, amazing video, thanks 🙏🏻.

I've been printing for about 3 years now using so many rolls on supports alone. idk why i never even thought about the "dome" shape being self-supporting.....smh. Appreciate the video....P.S. the previous vid to this one is the way i found your channel and its helped immensley. Thank you!!!!!

I played around with that method definitely saved a lot of pla that way.

thanks heaps so easy to do and saves so much filament

This was a really helpful video. I had seen someone else mention it, but not explained anywhere near as clearly as yours.

I’m not into cosplay, but you’ve made me curious on producing a helmet, just have to find a design I’d like and see how it goes. Please keep up the great work.

Awesome. Can't wait to print one of these helmets in one go

This tutorial was so helpful! Definitely cleared up the printing support questions i’ve been looking into. Thanks a lot!

My main concern with making a helmet was the top and I didn’t know what kind of supports I needed but now that I know I least I’ll use less filament

Hi, I just want to say thanks, your videos are awesome, you explain everything y just a simple way, easy to understand even for someone outside states.

MAN was this helpful, or should I have said WOMAN was this helpful. I had literally over 800 grams of support shaved off thanks to this video. I'll have to let you know how it turns out. Thanks again

omg how did I not know this was a thing, learn something new every day

Learned something new ... again , Thank You ... subbed

Sweet!!! I stumbled across this video. I knew about the support blocker but I didn't realize they could be resized and rotated. Thanks. For that I'll check out the rest of your channel. Happy printing!

Thank you! I watched your other (old) helmet video last night, and am glad you posted this as well. I'm going to kick off printing a Mando helmet today!

I am so glad I found your videos! I am new-ish to 3D printing and about to start my first Bo-Katan helmet and this video is sooooo helpful. Thank you for taking so much time to list everything needed with links, you have made this project less scary for me now haha

Hey, thanks for the great advice on support blocking, only been 3D printing for about a year and just finished my first helmet and saved a lot of time and material

Here bc of the first video thank you

You may already know this but for those that don't. On models such as the helmet, the bottom may not be perfectly even and lay flat on the bed (like the helmet). On some models you may not need (or want) to keep the exact shape of the bottom of the model. In Cura you can lower the model down into the build plate until all edges are flat on the bed, then Cura will slice it ignoring any part of the model that goes into the bed. That way you won't need supports around the bottom of the model.

I wish I see this video before I started my 5 day print probably would of cut my print time in half and saved on filament Keep up the great video 👍

Thank you so much for this video! I did not realize what that button did either! This is going to save me so much time and material!

Great job. I do one block in the center and then size it without uniform scaling. I make it wide and short (like me). Another thing that I do is set my support overhang angle to 65 with general tree supports (mostly) and put in custom supports on things like the visor.

This is great. My last helmet had that nightmare blob of support in the middle, and it was a pain to remove as well.

Thank you so much...found your channel recently, and it has helped out tremendously. Your videos are saving me so much time and headache. Thank you.

great video! never understood what that button did until now. thanks so much! liked and subscribed!

This video is off the dome!

Love the video! You've inspired me to do my own full helmet print! Off to Cura!

thank you for helping out! I appreciate your tips. I am self taught as well

Thank you for your videos. You are fun to watch and very inspiring! Building my Mando outfit now.

I don’t know how to thank you enough this is a life saver! Thank you!!! 😁🙏🏻

You = hero!

This helped me alot! My Mando was saying 9 days for the time and 2kg for filament and I got it down to 2 days with 903kgs!

I didnt quite catch why we were removing the dome supports, ill have to re watch hahaha

Good video I have to save it to my favorites to save it for reference so when I print my next helmet thanks for the tips and the helmet came out great!

Wow thanks for showing the technique now I can print my wrecker helmet without the middle support 😅

Oh my god I’m making a helmet (red hood) for Halloween so this is very useful

I had just watched your first video and tried to do the custom supports then my cura crashed due to my computer not being good enough at larger models. Then I saw this video and my hopes were restored. Thank you for the video. I’ll let you know how it goes

Brilliant video, well done!👍👍👍

perfect tutorial. i used your advice and discovered that is you unclick uniform scaling, you can drag the support blocker in one axis only instead of all three

thank you for making this video! I've been wanting to print a Mando helmet, but the print time was like 5 days, which is intimidating and feels like I'm just setting myself up for failure. Now I'm gonna try support blockers and see if I can get a good print going much faster!! Also your print speed of 120mm is crazy to me! I've been printing at only 50mms ever since I started 3d printing. haha

I recommend using a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) for your 3D printers. I use 1 per 3 printers. I have my settings turning off the heating bed after 10 layers to save on power and to save on battery in the event of a power failure. The more power the UPS can hold, the better. A UPS can save you money and prints in the long run. Specially if you are printing 2/3 day prints! NOTE: Depending on your UPS, you might not be able to heat up the bed of all 3 printers at the same time. You can do 2 beds (no nozzles). Then, when the 2 beds are hot you can start heating up the 3rd bed along with the 3 nozzles. That is how I do it. Its a minor inconvenience, but it has saved my 4/6 day prints! plus it also saves my printers from getting damaged.

thank you, this video really helped me!

Definitely found your channel through the CURA support video! Also, I was expecting "rotate on the blue axis" and was disappointed!

Current cura rotation tool lets you select an object face to align to the print bed... I think it's the 3rd rotation option.Check it out. A real time-saver.

Forget about the annoying guys, you are doing great! The resume function was pretty good. I never used it and I hope I never will. :D Instead of four retangles you can try a single cilinder in the future.

I quite like the 'snap rotation' for most alignment changes but holding down the shift key (on a Mac, not sure what key on pc) while rotating will temporarily disable snap rotation to give me a little more precise control.

New to the channel 🤠 👍 sent a fallow 🤗 thank you very much for the wonderful video 😁 I bin wanting to get into helmets 😎🤩

great video. definitely respect the candor regarding the 3d printing learning curve. it's the forgetfulness curve that can be more painful at times. still using the CR-10 after all these years? is this based on still being your favorite after testing other printers or ???

Super great channel. Saved me a ton of time and pla.

I have seen another youtuber print helmets like this that don't have a lot of detail upside down and it uses a lot less support, just needs a bit of sanding on top when finished

this was fantastic, i'm a recent subscriber, but your content is amazing, thank you so much

Great video. Easy to follow. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot or misunderstood, but I thought you said you'd make your Cura settings available? I think I've got something in mine messing me up. Keep up the great job and I look forward to more!

THANK YOU 💚💚💚

AWESOME!!!!

Another great video, thank you

I can’t get the top of the dome to Connect it’s always printing with small layer imperfections (like lines not completely touching each other) I’ve been fiddling with settings for 2 weeks with no luck.

You are soooo right about the way woman are treated in STEM-fields! I do EVERYTHING to encourage woman to engage in STEM (and weight lifting). The world would be so much further if we where not so stupid to discriminate against woman and other races ❤️❤️❤️

I have been printing for over a year now and that helmet is the only one I can’t get right. The “nose” part is killing me. Gonna try your settings

I've actually noticed that the Support Blocker seems to freak out a lot and ignore itself in some parts, depending on the model. Basically what I'm saying is, always check your layers!

Cool, very useful!

Great video

Loving these videos! New to 3D printing my cosplay materials and wanting to gauge a good choice for printers that can one shot a helmet. Would you recommend a Creality CR 10 for beginners? Keep up the awesome videos!

My Cura doesn’t show this option to block the supports? Can you help me figure it out

I love your videos and what your doing! Your audio is so quiet though. Please turn yourself up in production. Keep making videos! :)

How did you get the support button on the left side at the bottom? I have looked everywhere in the market place and I can’t find it. I have not 5.2 and 5.3 version of Cura

Any chance you can show screenshots of every section of Cura and the settings you have?

What kind of 3d printer are you using?

don't feel bad everyone is self taught in this.I am a partner in a 3d printing store, and have teachers coming in saying that STEM (3d printing portion) was dumped on them. Even at one of the technical side high schools they are using the 14 teen and 15 teen year old's to run the classes. WHAT A SHAME THAT WE PAY FOR THESE SCHOOLS AND THEY CAN'T TEACH. IT WAS GIVE THEM MONEY FIRST FOR THE EQUIPMENT AND THEN SINK OR SWIM. 1.2 MILLION TO ONE OF THE SCHOOLS IN ARE AREA AND NO ONE QUALIFIED TO TEACH 3D PRINTING!!!!!

How do you remove the supports without cracking the helmet? Sincere question lol

I am a 50 yr old mom that LOVES cosplay and I just got a 3d printer. I’m trying to follow your tutorial for BoKatans helmet, the button to take out the inside supports, I couldn’t find it on Cura. And I don’t k kw how to rotate it to look under the helmet, thoughts??

So I’m trying to fit a mandalorian olhelmet on a ender 3 pro scale and I have it to the right scale and it won’t let me slice

hello I want to thank you for the videos they are very informative but i have a question> do you know if orca has the same features as in cura ? im also self thought and the only one i found to down load good enough was orca slicer. Can you advised. also great videos

Can you do this with face shells with holes in?

I wish I would’ve seen this before I had just printed my Bo Katan helmet

If you don’t know this there’s a custom support tool that you can find on the market for free! You can shape it and add as much of it as you want

Fairly new to 3D printing here but what would happen if you decided to simply print the helmet upside down?

how you size it to your head? thank you in advance

Do those support blocks not actually print? Is it just telling Cura that supports aren't needed there? I have no 3d printing experience and am not sure how to get started with it

How have you removed the image of your printer in cura? Frustrates me when looking at my print from underneath having to look through the image of the printer. Good to see you updated with this video - I was watching the original one and was wondering why you weren't using support blockers. Also you showed me different custom supports to the ones I was using so interested to try yours. The ones I've been using are the Cylindric Custom Support.

I cannot find that plug in. Anybody know where in the market place it is?

Hi, really enjoy watching your vids. What printers can you advice to print the helmet in one piece?

Hey, I'm wanting to get into 3d printing for cosplay purposes. What computer specs would I need to be able to print off cosplay armour pieces? I.e starwars helmets, breast plates etc

What printer do you use

Can you use this for an animated phase 2 clone?

Just watched your video on making a full helmet I really want to make one but I m a bit nerves on doing something has big has this for 2 days still don't understand how I can let it print has my printer on pause go cold hope I am making sense thank you

when you're cleaning up, what is your technique as not not scrape up the helmet to bad? are you changing the support interface at all so that the supports come off easier?

Hello Miss VaultFox! ty for sharing this vid and info. I managed to print a mando helmet for my daughter since that is what she wants, but customized for her. I managed to print it in 1 shot via Cura with the custom supports without the middle part. It came out perfect on my CR10S - Pro V2 i just got. took 58 hours and 559g! not to bad. My issue are the supports!! they are on their like glue, almost fused and hard to break off. the supports are super rigid and really attached. Hard to break off. What support setting do you recommend to make it easier for the supports to come off? In simplify3D those supports always break easily off, but this time i tried it in cura. thank you!!!

Did you down scale it i dont understand how your saving 200more grams then me. I even have 3% less infill.. And only 2% support density!

Will this still work if you have to cut the helmet in half? (small print bed problems)

Try support infill at 3% and print at 5% and use gyroid for print infill, I run all of my helmets this way, I always block interior supports and have nothing but great success!

Can I ask what 3d printer you use?

could this be printed on an ender 3 pro? or should i go with the Ender 3 Max? im new to the printing world and looking to get my first printer. looking to print mainly mando armor and other various cosplay stuff. any info you can give is GREATLY appreciated

what is your 3d printer that you are using?