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I remember years ago using an Ultimaker S5 that could print support material in PVA. That methodology doesn't seem to have propagated to modern 3D printers (Ultimakers lineup hasn't changed in a meaningful way since 2017...). I have a feeling this may be due to a Stratasys patent on the technology, which wouldn't be surprising.

Is it possible to use PVA with the Creality CFS, and can one select what to print support material out of? I don't have a CFS (yet) and have a K1 max. But I would be quite happy to either purchase a K2 plus and CFS, or CFS and adapter for K1 if this is possible, as being able to dissolve support material is quite handy.

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PVA is just a filament, so there's no reason at all it wouldn't work in a CFS. The only thing that would be lacking is automatic filament type detection, which is done by RFID on the spool; Creality (AFAIK) doesn't make PVA, so they wouldn't have a tagged spool for it.

Setting the specific filament for supports is done in the slicer. It's supported in Orca and Creality Print (at least in v5 and above). You can find it in the Supports section, under the Filaments for Supports area. There are separate settings for the support base and its interface layers.

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