• JoShmoe@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What’s annoying is that it doesn’t HAVE to purge. I’ve experimented with changing the filament manually without pausing and the results are good.

  • bitsplease@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In fairness to multicolor printing in general, he couldn’t have picked a worse multicolor model for generating waste. You want to optimize for as few color changes as possible. Just the other day I printed some pokeballs in full color and it was (iirc) around a 0.4:1 waste:print ratio - which is still a fair bit of waste, but nothing like 2.5, thanks to the fact that the colors are layered.

    Gradients are the absolute worst thing for multicolor printing, this printer was probably doing 3-6 color switches per layer

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I wonder if a slicer could hide the transitioning color inside the print instead of making a separate purge tower. I don’t know that the cause of the filament popping is, but maybe that could be minimized like this too?

    • bitsplease@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The Bambu slicer does offer such a thing, the results vary depending on the colors in question though, if the color it’s purging is black, and most of the print is white, then the black that gets flushed into the infill is going to be pretty visible under the white outer walls. This can be mitigated by thicker walls, and ofc its less of an issue when dealing with colors of different, but similar, shades

      I’ve found that the best way to reduce multicolor waste is to try and setup your model in the first place so that it uses the smallest number of color changes possible, but ofc whether or not you have much control over that will depend largely on the model in question

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
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      11 months ago

      supposed to

      I don’t understand this. Who is supposed to do anything in this hobby? If you wanna print in gray and then paint, go for it. If you wanna print in multicolor, go for it.

        • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
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          11 months ago

          There are other ways of avoiding waste and given that it was Stefan promoting you can bet this is to prove a point about the X1.

          They should be purging on infill instead of the poop method

  • hellweaver666@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I just prefer to paint my models. It’s more fun and doesn’t generate a metric butt ton of waste.

    Btw there are videos of people on YouTube melting the poop into silicone moulds using a toaster oven to make key dishes and stuff!

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You have a lot more control over the final look with paint as well, though it is obviously time consuming.