On 10/31/24 16:43, Steve Lelievre via Discuss wrote:

An excellent question Steve. I've considered putting an CCRF on my
rebuilt ender 5 plus, and wondering just how much of a headache that
might be?

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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On 10/31/24 17:37, gene heskett via Discuss wrote:

correction below, damn the typu's;

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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On 31.10.24 21:42, Steve Lelievre via Discuss wrote:

There is no simple answer unfortunately, it's multiple things that are
at play here.

Right now OpenSCAD only supports exporting color via OFF which has
not so great support in other applications.

Assuming OBJ learns to export colors, I don't know if PrusaSlicer would
be able to pick that up. My assumption at this point is: NO.

I do have some not yet finished changes for the 3MF export that do
allow PrusaSlicer to see multiple objects, but the actual color is
ignoredin the slicer itself. The viewer at printables does use the
colors though.

The "coloring" or better material selection in PrusaSlicer is
independent from the colors, it's just based on the (3MF-)file having
multiple parts defined and the slicer allows selecting the material
for each object.

Example file:
https://www.printables.com/model/1020666-openscad-color-3mf-test/files

ciao,
Torsten-

Hi mailinglist,

I sometimes print in multi color.
This mailinglist may like the attached example as a model.

I export one model per color. The slicer (orca slicer works fine, it's a fork of prusa slicer) loads all models into the same printing bed and allows a "material" for each model.

If you would like to experience some of the pain^W joy of multi color printing, you may use the example attached and change filament once by hand. Your printer will support a "pause" command.
Put the text facing downwards into the printing bed. I recommand you start with black. Please adopt

baselayer_height=0.28;
layer_height=0.2;

to your nozzle size and slicer settings.

There is a religious war about how to print best in multi color:

• printing services do not allow it, it may be seldom requested and expensive
• some believe in multiple printing heads
• some believe in a material changer with one printing head

That being said: When you use a multi material changer and a melted string of filament jams the filament supply on retraction...
your print will fail.
When you use multiple heads and they park heated in a parking position, filament may ooze out of the heated nozzle and create a thread.

Happy printing!
Marcus

On 10/31/24 17:42, gene heskett via Discuss wrote:

next question, I can't find anyone selling the complete kit with ALL the
printed parts. I am not interested in spending 6 months printing the
rest of it, if indeed I can get the .stl's to do it. If you want to sell
it to me, the kit /WILL/ be complete w/all printed parts. I gave up om
aliexpress, trying to get the .stl's out of them to make a voron
trident. Requesting the files is a waste of time. & I've been asking for
over 2 years.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis

Thank you, Torsten. Now it's clear for me.

Steve

On 2024-10-31 2:45 p.m., Torsten Paul via Discuss wrote:

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https://www.youtube.com/@gnomonica

@gene heskett gheskett@shentel.net, if you do not find the STL's let me
know and I will see if one of my buddies that has a voron
trident can get them to you.  Also, if we can find the STL's, you can
probably hire a print farm to print the few you need - or maybe ask the
voron community if they can help you out...

Anyway, if you do not get it sorted out in the next week or so, give me a
ping off list and I will see if I can make connections.

EBo --

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:23 PM Steve Lelievre via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:

On 11/1/24 15:06, John David wrote:

I appreciate the offer EBo, but this piece of junk has been decorating a
yard sale table, blocking access to much of my kitchen for over 2 years.
Its as close to a parts warehouse as it can get. I have braced up and
rebuilt an Ender 5 plus that now runs 10 to 12x faster than OOTB, and
found that stepper/servo's can do a better, more accurate job w/o IS
than an $1000 X-max3 qidi with all the bells and whistles. Inlaid text
was unreadable at 10mm/sec OOTB is now perfectly readable at 100mm/sec.
All told aliexpress moved over $1200 out of my card for a badly busted
box that did not have cutout room in the packing for enough parts to
build a printer. After months of dicking with them, I'm still missing
all but one piece of the hotend adaptor and housing. They are the dealer
for hanpose motors and controllers and despite their having my email
address they could have used, chose to delay the shipment for 3 damned
weeks, with no notice to me because their damned card sw threw away the
area code for my phone number. If I can get it from someplace else, I
do. If someone wants to try and finish building it, they can try for
$200 and a trip to WV USA to pickup everything I have. I want it out
from under foot. Its well framed but today is older tech.

Email me to setup a deal.

Thank you EBo.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis