<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/10917/i-saw-this-on-kickstarter-and-have-a-question/ Fri, 01 May 2015 20:09:31 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94645/#p94645 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.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 20:09:31 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94645/#p94645 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94640/#p94640 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!

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 19:45:18 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94640/#p94640 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94635/#p94635 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.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 18:44:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94635/#p94635 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94595/#p94595 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!

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 10:11:42 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94595/#p94595 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94585/#p94585 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.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 03:52:54 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94585/#p94585 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94570/#p94570 I am pretty sure in most cases wher this is used the user does not want an immediate color change, but a fade effect.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2015 00:43:06 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94570/#p94570 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94567/#p94567 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.

]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:46:42 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94567/#p94567 <![CDATA[Re: I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94194/#p94194 no the splice should not cause a problem

]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:44:49 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/94194/#p94194 <![CDATA[I saw this on Kickstarter and have a question]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/94185/#p94185 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?

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