<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> 2015-05-01T20:09:31Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/10917/i-saw-this-on-kickstarter-and-have-a-question/ <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> You could potentially hide transitions in the infill on some objects, though if your layer area dropped under some threshold on a print you couldn't do a hidden layer change there. It'd also require some fancier coding than they have shown.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/221/ 2015-05-01T20:09:31Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94645/#p94645 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> elmoret wrote:

They use a purge tower to handle the transition, which also means they don't have to monitor quite as precisely.

That makes this approach a bit wasteful when compared to something like a Chimera or Kraken.

Didn't see that...Big time wasteful!...both in filament and time!

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/131/ 2015-05-01T19:45:18Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94640/#p94640 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> They use a purge tower to handle the transition, which also means they don't have to monitor quite as precisely.

That makes this approach a bit wasteful when compared to something like a Chimera or Kraken.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/221/ 2015-05-01T18:44:51Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94635/#p94635 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> In theory this should work.  With a clean splice, then the transition should be pretty quick; however the control/feedback loop with regard to distance of filament from the Palette to the extruder would need to be monitored sooo accurately!

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/131/ 2015-05-01T10:11:42Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94595/#p94595 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> w_smith wrote:

I can't imagine this would work well, when I change filament colors I have to purge the head with over 100mm of the new color to get a clean print.  Dark to light colors take even more.

I was thinking the same thing.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1357/ 2015-05-01T03:52:54Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94585/#p94585 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> I am pretty sure in most cases wher this is used the user does not want an immediate color change, but a fade effect.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7731/ 2015-05-01T00:43:06Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94570/#p94570 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> I can't imagine this would work well, when I change filament colors I have to purge the head with over 100mm of the new color to get a clean print.  Dark to light colors take even more.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/8167/ 2015-04-30T23:46:42Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94567/#p94567 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> no the splice should not cause a problem

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/168/ 2015-04-26T14:44:49Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94194/#p94194 <![CDATA[I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> i saw this on Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mo … ng-evolved

Do you think the splice would cause problems going through the hotend on the printer?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/187/ 2015-04-26T12:56:31Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/94185/#p94185