Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?  

How are you colouring the parts?  Is that painting in the slicer?  Attached is a sample three-colour file; unzip it, import the three files together as *parts* and allocate each to a different extruder. You will find one colour is flush and the other protrudes 0.2mm.

If you print it use 0.2mm layers.

Examine the individual files to see the technique.

Cheerio,

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Posted by: @diem

How are you colouring the parts?  Is that painting in the slicer?  Attached is a sample three-colour file; unzip it, import the three files together as *parts* and allocate each to a different extruder. You will find one colour is flush and the other protrudes 0.2mm.

If you print it use 0.2mm layers.

Examine the individual files to see the technique.

Cheerio,

 1a7e5e8b-3colour.zip

Diem, 

Thank you for your reply. In my case I am importing them all as parts. Then I select each part and specify an extruder for each.   Sorry I wasn't clear about that originally.

I'll take a look at your example and see if I experience the same thing.

thanks!

Carmine

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Posted by: @stratocaster

Posted by: @diem

How are you colouring the parts?  Is that painting in the slicer?  Attached is a sample three-colour file; unzip it, import the three files together as *parts* and allocate each to a different extruder. You will find one colour is flush and the other protrudes 0.2mm.

If you print it use 0.2mm layers.

Examine the individual files to see the technique.

Cheerio,

 1a7e5e8b-3colour.zip

Diem, 

Thank you for your reply. In my case I am importing them all as parts. Then I select each part and specify an extruder for each.   Sorry I wasn't clear about that originally.

I'll take a look at your example and see if I experience the same thing.

thanks!

Carmine

Hey Diem, 

I tried your example.   I set each part to a different extruder.  In this case I chose extruder two (orange) for the word caster.  I see the same thing as in my original case.  When I slice the model and scroll through layer by layer I would like to see the word caster (3colourdemo3) as orange all the way through, but that's not happening.  The only part that is orange are the layers that are above 3colourdemo1.stl (the solid rectangle).   I was wondering if there was a way to make this happen.  

I attached my 3mf file with the model that demonstrates what I am saying.  Look at the object LEFT0. I have it colored with extruder 4.  You can see how thick it is by selecting it and moving it around.  Slice the model and then scroll layer by layer and you'll see what I am referring to after a number of layers the part LEFT0 is colored with extruder 3.

Carmine 

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Here's the attachment.  Guess I had to zip it.

Is this what you're trying to do?

Cheerio,

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Posted by: @diem

Is this what you're trying to do?

Cheerio,

 bfd72d0d-deepcolour.zip

Diem,

Yes. That is the gist of it.  Did you get a chance to look at my example?  I wonder if there is an issue since my example is a sphere...   I can do something similar to what you did if I just have a rectangle and a cylinder and just move the cylinder inside the rectangle.  It appears to work, but I can't figure out why it isn't doing it in my example.

thanks!

Carmine

Your example isn't thick enough.  The simplest method is to design the body and the feature, subtract the feature from the body to make a tailored void and replace it with another copy of the feaure saved seperately and allocated to a different extruder;.

Cheerio,

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

The issue is your 'decals' overlap the white base sphere rather than each part having their own dedicated space. When multiple parts (not objects) overlap their order on the model list dictates which part overrides the other.

When the "sphere part" is on the bottom of the list it has priority over all other parts, so you only get your ".2mm extra" of the decals:

When the "sphere part" is on the top of the list it has the least priority, so all the decals get their full shape printed:

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

BaconFase,

Thank you I’ll give that a try.  When you say top of the list you mean the top of the tree?  So I need to import them so that the MainBody (sphere part) is the root of the tree. 

Thanks again

Carmine

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Posted by: @diem

Your example isn't thick enough.  The simplest method is to design the body and the feature, subtract the feature from the body to make a tailored void and replace it with another copy of the feaure saved seperately and allocated to a different extruder;.

Cheerio,

That’s a great idea.  I will try to do an intersection with the sphere and decals so there is a void in the sphere where the parts meet.  I’ll try that too.  Thank you much.

RE: Multipart print. What determines what gets printed at the intersections of the parts?

Posted by: @baconfase

 

Posted by: @stratocaster

BaconFase,

Thank you I’ll give that a try.  When you say top of the list you mean the top of the tree?  So I need to import them so that the MainBody (sphere part) is the root of the tree. 

Thanks again

Carmine

Compare the model parts list on the right sides of my screenshots; simple drag and drop "LEFTPanel.stl" from the bottom to the top.

Confirmed.  this worked well.  thank you!

Carmine