About Managing Generated Supports

Detach, reattach, and clone support structures

Any changes in position or orientation of both supported and neighboring parts may affect support structures that have already been calculated and applied.

To address such situations quickly, choose from Main Menu > Prepare > Manage Supports any function that may apply to your task.

Split Support to new Part	This will turn any supports attached to the selected part into a separate part. Tip: Useful for modifying supports at the mesh level, such as for adding labels.
Refresh attached Support	Reapplies any existing supports, maintaining the original anchors. This can be helpful when packing multiple parts that already have supports attached, especially when parts are now intruding on other parts' existing supports. Note: This maintains existing support anchors and cluster outlines. Any rotation not solely about the Z axis may result in shifting triangles into or out of critical and non-critical angles. When in doubt, it may be safer to generate new supports from scratch.
Merge Solid Support with Part	Any support structures that count as solid will be permanently merged with the part's mesh. Any non-solid supports, such as polyline supports without thickness, remain unchanged.
Attach Cloned Support	Copies any existing part's supports and applies them to the currently selected part. Helpful to avoid repetition in workflow when the selected part is practically the same as another, already loaded, already supported part, and may as such receive the same supports. Tip: If the donating part has no supports, it will itself be attached as support structure. Best used in conjunction with Split Support to new part, to reattach modified supports.
Remove attached Support	If the part has any supports attached, they will be removed.
Convert Bar Support to Lattice	With this option you can utilize the editing functionalities of the Lattice Commander. All present bar supports will be collectively loaded into a Lattice Commander component where you can edit them as nodes (anchors) and beams (bars).

These operations apply to supports both in the default module and within machine workspaces. The great benefit of this is that any configurations and build strategies applied to the donating part's supports, which may vary significantly between supports and solid supports, are maintained during copying to the receiving part, provided the supports haven't been converted into a part at some point.