Somehow it didn’t even occur to me to switch filaments mid way to get different colors on a single print, but once noticing it, I’m seeing it a lot more like on lettering for signs that are 3D printed.
Wondering if anyone has other ways they’re getting multi colored print? Other than painting afterwards. I don’t like how painting kind of takes away from a 3D printed object when I give them away. It looks…less 3D printed. Best way is probably to design in different parts I guess?
This looks cool. It’s probably a little hard to tell when you’ll need to switch colors I suppose, so I suppose @Utrred, super precise colored prints are out of the question. But the whale toy you’ve shared is also not precisely colored, and it looks really good
For $1,000, it is a pretty advanced little machine. The antiquated STL file format is just for a single(none) color.
The new 3MF file format will be used to slice OBJ and PLY models that have pre-defined coloring schemes.
CURA has already implemented 3MF in to their new version lease. I recently updated CURA , and it took-over ALL of my STL file extensions, with “3D Model Files”, but that has not been a problem, as 3MF is backwards compatible with STL, so other slicing programs will still open them.
I can only confirm that S3D and IdeaMaker will open 3MF file extensions, but I am not sure if they can write the gcode that necessary to use “The Palette”, yet.
Just came into the office and saw your link to The Palette. Looked up a video of how it prints and it looks so great! I see that the standard version (without the filament module kits and 4kg of filament) is $799. Estimated shipping to begin in April 2016? Fingers crossed all goes well!
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