Carbon Fiber aesthetic pattern  

Which CF filament are you using?  Explain the colour settings, are you using two different CF filaments?

Cheerio,

RE: Carbon Fiber aesthetic pattern

Diem,

I'm not using CF filament. I want to print the appearance of CF fabric. I've read that we can print text on a surface without embossing or debossing for facets to paint in the slicer, so I figure a CF pattern would be something similar, but can't find this function in the software.

Thanks. Brad.

RE: Carbon Fiber aesthetic pattern

OK, so you are really just looking for a weave pattern - CF is woven in many ways according to purpose, it can be a regular fibre weave, a twill, a ribbon weave and for technical purposes it may be assymetric or even stress concentrated weft ... in theory it could be decoratively woven as in jaquard or even knitted.

It's usually black in both warp and weft so any visible pattern is due to differential reflection, not colour changes.

The nearest similar options in the slicer are the top fill patterns Hilbert Curve and Octogram Spiral.

As for a multicolour simulation: you are stuck with defining a repeating pattern as in the attached file (unzip, import both as parts and assign different extruders) but the slicer won't treat them as a weave so the effect doesn't bear close inspection.

Cheerio,

RE: Carbon Fiber aesthetic pattern

For Bambu, but can't see why they wouldn't work on a Prusa.....

https://store.bambulab.com/products/bambu-3d-effect-sheets-combo-with-plate?id=41881458311283