genesat1 wrote:

I have several things I want to do, for instance what would happen if I used a Palette to do print a mostly black object and then custom made filament using: https://justpigments.com/collections/ch … ica-powder as a very thin outer shell of the object. 

Catch is its 40 degrees out in my unheated garage - in the middle of the day.  Experimenting is for fun, and fun requires the ambient temperature involved be >60-65.

Printers print in layers, not columns. So to print a single wall outer layer in a different color is going to be hard. The pallet is designed to make entire layers of a different color, not just one pass.

You might be able to do what you want with a dual extruder system, but unless the outer layer is translucent then your not going to see the inside so you might as print the entire thing in the outside color.

I have a Palette 2, perhaps it has a larger buffer or it just plain splices faster but I already have had it do different colors in the same layer successfully.

The outer layer would be translucent.  Chamelion pigments are made of a mostly transparent material that need a dark color behind them to work, so in a more transparent resin like 3D850 and in a thin shell (eg tell slicer to use an extrusion width of maybe .3) I think the effect might work.

I have several things I want to do, for instance what would happen if I used a Palette to do print a mostly black object and then custom made filament using: https://justpigments.com/collections/ch … ica-powder as a very thin outer shell of the object. 

Catch is its 40 degrees out in my unheated garage - in the middle of the day.  Experimenting is for fun, and fun requires the ambient temperature involved be >60-65.

Printers print in layers, not columns. So to print a single wall outer layer in a different color is going to be hard. The pallet is designed to make entire layers of a different color, not just one pass.

You might be able to do what you want with a dual extruder system, but unless the outer layer is translucent then your not going to see the inside so you might as print the entire thing in the outside color.

Catch is its 40 degrees out in my unheated garage - in the middle of the day.  Experimenting is for fun, and fun requires the ambient temperature involved be >60-65.

then there are the satisfaction of doing it by yourself, and be able to experiment with colors and materials.

When a kg of filament is below $20 a kilo more or less it is hard to justify a filastuder. Especially when one has precious little shop room.

...or time.

When a kg of filament is below $20 a kilo more or less it is hard to justify a filastuder. Especially when one has precious little shop room.

If there are any other forums that discuss and test different materials for home extrusion i would like to know.

I initially signed up here to gain insight into common SD issues and to learn more... Now that I'm a bit more seasoned, my visits dropped. But I do occasionally pop in just to see what's going on, and am glad this place is still going!

But yeah, I also noticed that it has slowed down.

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Barely any posts lately.

looks like you dont post enough for others to know your still active ;^P 81 posts in 4 years. I only been here 1 year more and got ya beat by well over 2,000 lol. ya get out of life what ya put into it.