Topic: 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?
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no the splice should not cause a problem
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.
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I am pretty sure in most cases wher this is used the user does not want an immediate color change, but a fade effect.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.