Submitted 2 months ago by 4lan@lemmy.world to 3dprinting@lemmy.world
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I made a magsafe mount in black for my Kia and I didn’t like the layer lines on the curved parts, but it gave me the idea to try using wood
I have a 3D Chameleon MMU so I added color changes randomly throughout between two shades of brown. One is wood, one is PLA.
It honestly came out way better than I even expected!
If anyone wants the STL I can provide it!
Magnifique!
How much purge for something like this?
I’ll check the slicer again but it was really small. Most of the purge went into infill instead
I had my purge values low to encourage blending of the colors
What slicer is it ? I will check if it is possible to set no purge at all in BambuStudio - since I have an AMS lite.
purge tower was pretty hollow
That’s beautiful and extremely creative. I should fix my printer.
Do it!! And thank you!
Ah, I was trying to understand what MMU was. Then I realized off of those ridges that this was a 3D printed model. I was looking at the "marbling" and imaging it was some sort of putty or something akin to sculpey. It looks both groovy and comfy and you did a great job =)
Thanks!
Yeah, you guys always amaze me. On account of being able to model things spatially in CAD-esq software. It's a skill I never picked up on, and one that I really enjoy seeing in practice =)
Do you think printing without purge would make it look better? Or would it just blend into an medium brown
I think better, if there was always a little bit of leftover filament the pattern will be more random I think. With more gradual gradients
I’d love a 3D chameleon for my printer, but their shipping rate (I live in EU) is absolutely insane and unreasonable since they don’t even handle import and taxes for that price.
With Sunlu’s new filament joiner coming out, I might give this a try by splicing segments of different browns together into a big roll. It’s a very near concept, and your print looks amazing!
That’s a great idea! Would be such a faster print too
Gist time I sliced something for my AMS lite I was flabbergasted by the increase in printing time and waste.
For those unaware, since you’re often having 4 filament changes per layer, each of which take about a minute, a 1hr mono-fillament print can suddenly turn into a 36-hr print with 5-10x more filament being purged than ends up in the model.
It’s really cool, but super wasteful.
But you can strategize to minimize filament changes by splitting up a model and stacking it to minimize filament changes per layer. This one only took about 8 hours.
ooh that’s clever
That’s brilliant. What nozzle diameter and layer height did you use?
Thank you! Standard 0.4mm nozzle, 0.2mm layers
One of those two filaments is wood fill right? Do you ever get clogs with the 0.4 nozzle?
That looks great!
Be careful with PLA in your car, it will probably deform in the sun.
For sure! Luckily I park in an underground garage, so my car interior never really gets over 90
I have some PC just in case it does warp
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 2 months ago
10/10 would grain
4lan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When the comment is better than the post 😅
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 2 months ago
cool new extremely innovative home-made product vs low effort shit post