Hi all,
I’ve seen it done, but I can’t figure out how. I’m trying to print the first layer as an “image” with different colored filaments, like if you were trying to paint an image on glass and then flip the glass over and view the correct color application from the unpainted side. I’ve used Hue Forge, but that builds the image from the bed up and the completed image is viewed as it sits on the bed from above. I’ve done something similar to what I wanted by creating the second color as a second object and then manually aligning them on the bed, but I was hoping that there was some way to do it natively or more easily in Bambu Studio or something like Hue Forge.
Any suggestions?
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Ok, after asking around it looks like the closest way to do what I was looking for can be done here on Bambu’s website.
MakerWorld > BambuLabs > ImageToKeychain
HueForge was initially my first try, but that builds the image in the Z+ direction and there’s no way to reverse that order to create a shading with thin layers from the bottom up.
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Welcome to the forum! I’ll give you one of the ways people do it. It will take some heavy googling the first time you do it but once you get the hang of it it’s pretty easy. I can’t call it native because it involves two 3rd party (free) pieces of software. Inkscape and Tinkercad.
Take the picture and open it in Inkscape. Then you can separate the colors in to separate layers. Save each color as a different file in SVG format. Open all the SVGs you created in Tinkercad and line them back up to look like the original picture. Now if you want it to still be a flat picture you need to separate each layer a TINY bit. Just enough so Bambu studio will pick up the separations so you can color them. Save it as an STL.
Open the STL face up in Bambu Studio. Use the color tool to color each section to your liking and then flip it 180 degrees so it’s face down.
Then print. There are a LOT of online tutorials on how to separate colors in Inkscape. Many people use it for that. Tinkercad is a nice little tool too and you can’t beat free.
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Thank you for the reply. I’ve done something similar by modeling in groups where the colors are separate objects, which is similar to what your method does, and those print just fine. Either method gets tedious with the conversions and alignment work, Image to Keychain is far quicker and does the same thing for simple images, however printing something like labeled boxes would be better suited to your method or the one I mentioned.
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YES, very tedious. I tried selling plaques on Etsy and it never failed, when people would send me their insignia/logo it would be the most intricate, tiny detailed picture possible. Those are very difficult to do in Inkscape. Things like sports logos were usually much easier. I had to give it up. I know some people will take a picture and hand trace it in to a vector, I don’t think I’ll ever be at that skill level lol.
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