Printing with Custom Supports?

[Roxy]

I'm not sure it is a 'fad'. It is more like a desperate attempt to get something you want printed. I'm trying to make a complicated gear I need to make a Pump-jack for my brother. The built in support that Slicer does makes an unusable part. So, as part of the design I'm trying to define where and how the support gets included.

I apologize for how unclean this code is, but I didn't think this was going into the public domain! You can comment out the 2nd line: support(); to see it both ways. Be sure to 'Compile & Render'. For some reason Open_SCAD does not give a correct view of this part without doing that.

With all that said, you will see what I'm trying to accomplish with 'custom' support material. And if you are really ambitious, you can comment out the 2nd line that says support(); and turn on Slicer's support and see why its support is so undesirable when you print it!