Thursday, December 16, 2010
ABS Multicolor Printing
Chris Olah, a fellow RepRap hacker from Hacklab.to, has been experimenting with multi-colored prints on our Makerbot by loading differently colored ABS segments into the extruder. So far this has resulted in at least one extruder burn and a couple of really nice parts.
Full details in Chris's blog posts:
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Nice! That's really smooth transition.
A friend of mine did this on his Ultimaker: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xU6IxAtnIYXv-x5Sp0WcOLg43EqgxEYno3v9myjRzRw?feat=directlink
The bowden cable allows you to preload it and it will come out first-in-first-out! So you won't have to pay attention or melt the pieces together.
A friend of mine did this on his Ultimaker: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xU6IxAtnIYXv-x5Sp0WcOLg43EqgxEYno3v9myjRzRw?feat=directlink
The bowden cable allows you to preload it and it will come out first-in-first-out! So you won't have to pay attention or melt the pieces together.
That's awesome! Actually, everything I've seen about the ultimaker looks awesome, but that's particularly so!
I imagine if the object was smaller, you'd see more transition. There also seems to be an element of luck involved: sometimes more of the older colour stays buffered in the extruder, others less.
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I imagine if the object was smaller, you'd see more transition. There also seems to be an element of luck involved: sometimes more of the older colour stays buffered in the extruder, others less.
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