Needing help Wipe tower and multi color prints
Greetings,
I have the desire to make a layer of 2 color on my print. I have set the 2 extruders to on, laid my colors out where I want them and when I slice it a wipe tower comes up. Figured eh, no problem just let it run to see what happens. what happens isn't good. My first layer speed is 10% the wipe tower is 25 maybe 30? Doesn't laydown a good base for the wipe tower so it doesn't print correctly as it just drizzles out where the wipe tower is. According to Prusa website select wipe options and do and internal wipe or wipe on its self. When I select those options I loose the striping (2nd extruder) in the slice. So how do I eliminate the wipe tower AND keep both of my colors. The instruction are not very good if I do what it says and don't see the results expected.
All and any help with this appreciated.
Another thought, will the print still be multi colored and that the Prusa Viewer just isn't showing it?
Thanks
Dead in that water for now need help
RE: Needing help Wipe tower and multi color prints
Are you actually using a MMU ? If all you want is simple colour changes across a whole layer or similar then no wipe tower is needed.
Have a read of these threads.
https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/prusaslicer/manual-multicolor/
RE: Needing help Wipe tower and multi color prints
Thanks Prusa Tech support. Didn't see the tic for its selection. On to off, problem solved
RE: Needing help Wipe tower and multi color prints
Thanks for the references. I have a Geeetech 3 color printer. I was using the Slic3r up untill a week ago. Now using Prusa 2.2.3 I like the color or extruder selection in the controls. Makes it easy.
My issue is I would like to just swap extruders on the fly. Before I was opening the G-code and looking at the layers and inserting T0 or T1 at the right Z height layer change to make that work. (Very time consuming) Now when I select the color option (I like it) the problem I am having is my first layer speed is down to 10% to make a good base but when the Wipe tower first layer is put down it is at a different speed and the material isn't sticking. So I tried the wipe inside option but that takes away the multi extruder when you re-slice it. I am interested in learning the use of a wipe tower. First question is where is the first layer speed setting for the Wipe Tower.
Thanks for your help
Chip
