Multi Material Smart Fill Issues
I have a project I am trying to Color the lettering in. I am able to use the smart fill to make the surface black over white filament. But as you can see from the attached photos the smart fill is having some gaps when looking at sliced view. I tried using the sphere tool but I can color it out to no avail. Additionally I have tried multiple smart fill angles with no success.
Below is the Color tool show surface is colored Black.
Is there a way to configure Autofill to the surface 2 Layers deep? Or is there another solution I need to try.
RE: Multi Material Smart Fill Issues
Here is the output of the Slicer. I also see these imperfections in the print.
The colouring tool in the slicer is a fall-back resource if you have no better way to do it and no access to the design files. It's always better to set up colour in CAD.
For example: Attached are a pair of STLs (zipped) - import them into slicer together as parts of the same object, assign different extruders to them, and slice.
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RE: Multi Material Smart Fill Issues
Thank for your advice @Diem. I will work with Fusion 360 and see how it goes.
RE: Multi Material Smart Fill Issues
No current parameters in PS that I know of to affect vertical depth of the paint tool, only horizontal. Diem covered the best way to handle that issue.
'Gaps' in the preview are also only estimates. Sometimes gaps are just visual artifacts because filament squeezes in during a real print, but isn't accounted for when looking at the sliced preview. It can be difficult to tell which are actually problematic and which arn't; you just have to print and find out to really know what's what.
It's also hard to tell because of color choice but its also possible that with the small constrained areas that the extrusion widths are simply too large to get perfect overlaps in the small lettering (ex: the acute angle at the bottom of '2's). You can try things like increasing the 'infil/perimeter overlap' parameter, decreasing extrusion widths, and/or just using smaller nozzles on smaller prints.
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