Has anyone gotten Slic3r to generate support material?

[Polygonhell]

There is a little checkbox in the interface since 7.0 to generate support, I occasionally see it report "generating support" and I have never seen any support material in the print.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

[cquinby]

I can't get it to work. I think it is not working yet but not sure. wish it was...

[Polygonhell]

It does generate support material, but only in very extreme cases.
Unfortunately the logic to determine if it should is far too conservative for it to be useful at this point.

[michaellatif]

It does not work, it looks like a bug is open with the creators.
https://github.com/alexrj/Slic3r/issues/229

[Polygonhell]

As I said I've seen it generate support, but only in extreme cases, in my case the part was upside down because repetier host doesn't seem to correctly display rotated STL files.
I actually did spend a short amount of time looking at the code after I saw it generate the material, the logic for support is just not good.