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How to print a two color part with only one extruder
What you ask may be easier than you think. The slicing software is unimportant, generally speaking. Consider especially that your requirements fit the solution spot on.
Take a look at this ...
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Printing multiple materials with different properties on the same device
Yes and no.
for instance simultanious printing of plas plastic and lets say metal. Is such a printer available or in development ?
Practically speaking, no. Metal printing requires significantly ...
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Through what methods and mechanisms can a multi-material FDM printer operate?
Let's look at various methods:
Multiple Hotends
The oldest version and one of the best to print materials at vastly different print temperatures (like printing a cheaper PLA infill into a ...
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Anet A8 Installing second extruder without changing board
That is not possible without changing to a different printer main board. The Anet A8 board has 4 integrated (A4988) stepper drivers, one for X, one for Y, one for Z and one for E (extruder 0).
Both ...
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How do PLA, PETG, TPU, ABS and/or nylon work together in a single print?
The answers are
yes
yes
probably
Which is to say, if you only want to use MaterialNumberTwo for disposable supports, then you should be fine. Presumably the slicer software is material-aware and ...
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What is the best way to adhere an old printed part to the bed?
I have not done this, but I believe this is the best method and I want to test it at some point soon:
Model a negative for the footprint of the part you want to adhere to the bed, in the orientation ...
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Are there multi-filament hardened nozzles or equivalent systems?
Yes, but there is no hardened version of the "Diamond" nozzle design. Basically when you want to use a hardened nozzle, or a Ruby nozzle in combination with color mixing (I specifically refer to ...
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Using two feeders at the same time
The first multi material add-on version off J. Prusa includes several separate steppers that load filament into the hot end. Note that selecting an other color will retract the existing filament so ...
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Is the Prometheus system compatible with Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus?
The Prometheus system is pretty much a Y-coupler and two extruders. So, you need your Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus to have the connection points for two extruders and the axis, which means you need one ...
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Printing multiple materials with different properties on the same device
For the most part, you can achieve this with a dual extruding printer. However, dual extrusion is best for either multi-color printing or printing with support material. For example, printing the part ...
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Has anyone encountered this type of strange print patterns?
It is always very difficult to debug a printer remotely, but here's my best shot. I may be totally wrong though!
Zooming-in your picture seems to show like little bumps (inwards or outwards) that ...
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My first attempt at pausing a print and changing filaments resumed from the wrong position -- how do I troubleshoot?
You are out of luck:
Print gcode is written in relative coordinates. If you move the printhead manually, the printer does not know this, and will just follow its relative path from the new position - ...
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Which 3D design softwares make multi-material amf or other design files that slic3r will slice?
A Scriptable Process for Generating Multi-Material STL Files:
I am now using interactive CAD software to define the more complex features of the object I am printing (in the current case, clock faces)...
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Diamond hotend with single extruder motor
You might save yourself a lot of engineering by copying the Prusa MMU2. Here is a github project for someone doing exactly that: https://github.com/cskozlowski/mmu2
If you look on Prusa's web site, ...
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Cura projecting floating print onto build plate during slicing
I've been playing with this and came up with a solution, so I thought I would share in case anyone else had this issue in the future. In Ultimaker Cura I enabled supports and z-hopping before I sliced ...
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How to make solid soluble support surface with Prusaslicer?
What you're looking for is the Support Interface Layers.
In PrusaSlicer, enable Advanced or Expert mode, and under Print Settings ▶ Support Material ▶ Options for support material and raft you can ...
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What is the best way to adhere an old printed part to the bed?
I like the idea of printing a holder, for the part-it holds the part laterally and indexes the new printing. I would maybe model it and slice it separately. Then model and slice the text as a first ...
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What is the best way to adhere an old printed part to the bed?
Adherence is the 3D printer's worst enemy.
I use painter's tape, but I heard that you can if you need to remove and re-stick it back, heat the part lightly with a lighter and re-stick it back to the ...
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Dual extruder with gear shifting
That is perfectly viable these days in Marlin firmware, there are options for setting this up using the configuration file, e.g.:
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Mixing nozzle vs dual nozzle vs IDEX vs tool changer for pva and pla
I would advise against mixing nozzle - you would have many jams and clogs and you would have to use purge tower which in my opinion is not worth it. Thats scratching point 2.
Point 1. and 3. are ...
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Conductive materials quality
Someone has already studied this: study of electrical properties of 3D printed materials.
ABS: dielectric constant about 3.
PLA: 2.7-2.9.
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How do PLA, PETG, TPU, ABS and/or nylon work together in a single print?
I have printed ABS on top of PLA and it has bonded well. It was simple, then "campaign"-style buttons with Prusament Galaxy Black on the bottom and HatchBox white ABS on top. There was no tendency ...
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Through what methods and mechanisms can a multi-material FDM printer operate?
One of the easiest ways that I've seen, which I'm a fan of, is simply putting Y splitters on your Bowden tube and having multiple feeds to a single hot end. The main benefit is that you only need a ...
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Which 3D design softwares make multi-material amf or other design files that slic3r will slice?
You do not necessarily need a specific design tool, you can use any tool you want to create your multiple material product. It is the slicer software that manages the materials by assigning the ...
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Is Repetier host able to do multi-material printing?
Yes, it can. I have configured it for as many as four extruders. The problem may be in the slicing, as the slicer is responsible for generating the tool change commands.
One problem with the ...
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