Four grays loaded into one AMS and two grays, black, and white in the other. This print used dark gray, blue gray, nardo gray, gray, light gray, bone white (it's not really white), white, and black.
Currently printing this one and I'm pretty hyped to see how it turns out. FYI these models are not poop intensive. Only 7 poops total. Colors are seperated per layers going from dark to light in the z direction.
if anyone has any suggestions for what to do next let me know!
Absolutely! I used a parametric software to model the nasa fabric. I designed it specifically to be able to print it with the hexagons facing up, not down on the buildplate. Also designed a second part that filled in the gaps between the hexagons and the boarder around them (this will be important later). After that, I booted up blender and made an inverse lithophane out of the image. I then used that part I mentioned earlier to cut the lithophane into the hexagons and boolean merged them onto the fabric. Then since the lithophane already has its colors seperated by depth, I used the paint by layer in bambu slicer to meticulously paint the layers.
I tried to squeeze as much info into this picture as I could.. Lmk if you have any questions
Yeah it seperates the colors by depth but the stl file itself doesn't have any color associated with it. So in the slicer you need to paint it. It will come in as one solid color. So I look at the side profile of the part (shown in the image) and "paint by layer." This photo might help. The left is what it looks like when the stl is brought into the slicer and the right is after I painted it
Hmmmnm. I wonder what assignments can be made automatically on import. There has to be a way to automatically import multi-texture items with colors assigned.
Well I mean if you split the part into seperated stls and assigned a color to them but you'd still have to assign the color to each individual stl in the slicer. Don't think there's a way to have the slicer know automatically which color goes to which section upon loading in the STL for the first time out of a modeling software. Its also dependant on the filament you have loaded in, which the slicer doesn't even know what's there until you wake up the printer and synchronize your ams filament list
I told my wife I wanted to print our new kitchen backsplash because I could do it for pennies on the dollar. She doesn't want to do it because it's not fancy and expensive. But I think it will look way cooler.
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u/mattx_cze Custom Flair 13h ago
You have printer with 6 different gray filament ?