Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 15, 2013 04:26PM |
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Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 16, 2013 06:51PM |
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Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 17, 2013 12:32AM |
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Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 18, 2013 10:08AM |
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You need to home with T0 selected both times, then switch to T1 or stay with T0. If you home with T0 selected one time, then home with T1 selected the next time, you will see an offset equal to your extruder offset.
Also: Cura support for dual extruders is pretty good. Make sure you have all your settings correct (dual extrusion retract set fairly high, etc.) then import an STL file for each extruder. Right-click on the model that you want to use the first extruder to use, then select dual-extrusion merge. Voila, you now have dual-extruder g-code.
KISSlicer does a very good job with dual-extrusion as well, including options to cool the unused extruder to a keep-warm temperature to reduce oozing. It does cost money though, and isn't open-source.
Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 18, 2013 01:49PM |
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Kiss is dead as far as everyone is concerned,
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But in either one I have never seen much for the ability to choose colors per area of the same model so how is this done? I know both of them support using the second extruder for support I believe but beyond that I don't recall much.
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Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 18, 2013 03:07PM |
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Kiss is dead as far as everyone is concerned,
Yep. I'm kinda wishing I hadn't paid for it, although it is still a good program.
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But in either one I have never seen much for the ability to choose colors per area of the same model so how is this done? I know both of them support using the second extruder for support I believe but beyond that I don't recall much.
The only way to do this is to create two separate models, one for each color. OpenSCAD's boolean operations are useful for this. Hopefully this will be improved with a better file format than STL.
Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 18, 2013 05:00PM |
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So everyone doing these multicolor prints are just manually modifying extruder used at X layer? I had an idea for my next printer that I would pair ABS with that NinjaFlex to make some things like hinges and stuff but without knowing if they will bond I had come up with an idea that would constrain one inside the other but it would require printing both materials on the same layer. Maybe separate them by a very small amount and I guess that would work with Cura?
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Re: Issue printing with T1 on a multi-extruder printer December 21, 2013 03:22AM |
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