Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
I've seen several posts about this and the answer is always that it's not supported. I have a XL 5T and am finding that I commonly want to print multiple parts at the same time that are different colors. Not being able to match the brim color to the part is problematic because it almost always leaves some of the brim color behind. I've tried a variety of different brim settings, and it doesn't seem possible to get "perfect" separation while removing the brim and still have it do it's job of preventing the part from lifting off the build plate. The little bits of color left behind are especially difficult to remove from curved surfaces.
Here is a screenshot of something I printed recently. It was successful and the brim did it's job, but I spent quite a lot of time trying to clean up the lighter color parts. It would have been much easier if I could have specified which extruder to use for the brim on each part.
RE: Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
I second the motion. Right now I can get around the problem if only two colors are involved by swapping the colors in each tool if the . Seems like whatever color it decides to start with is the color you're going to get for a brim. Actually having multiple tool brims might get weird. Even in sequential mode, brims always come out first. It would be pretty useful to have, at the very least, a tool choice for brim output.
RE: Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
I second this motion too. However, in some cases there might be a solution if you realise that the brim is always printed from extruder 1!
RE: Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
I would also like to see the option to individually choose the extruder for the support/skirt/brim. Especially when combining materials having the brim follow the support material is far from ideal.
For now I just add my own 0.2mm tall objects to create a brim but it would be much easier if a toggle option was built in.
RE: Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
+1
RE: Feature Request: Option to specify brim extruder for individual parts
You can post all the feature requests you like here on the forum. Wont do any good as the devs dont monitor here. You need to raise them as official requests on the appropriate Prusa github project repo. For example the Prusa Slicer one (which is likely to be the one to control this functionality rather than the printer firmware) is located here https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues
However given there are over 4200 OPEN issues currently please do search with as many relevant keywords for any existing or related ones before opening a new request.
For example this one https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/10491 seems very related.
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This feature would be enormously helpful. Yes. Removing the brim mis-matched color accounts for the majority of my post-processing