Currently working on 3d-printing a lightbox of my dad’s company logo for his birthday that’s coming up. I’ve gotten this far, which would be all I need if I had an AMS.
Unfortunately I didn’t buy the combo so I’m trying to split this merged assembly that has been cut back into individual parts so I can group parts based on filament color and print them one at a time. Any time I split assembly back into objects it removes the connectors and the letters and symbols scale up with the outer wall so it’s not hollow anymore.
Welcome to the forum.
From my understanding, you’re aiming for multicolour printing without an AMS. In that case, you are limited to layer change, i.e., the print pauses at specific layers, and you replace the spool with the desired colour. This may pose some lightbox issues if the thickness affects light transmission.
Another option is to print separated parts and assemble them.
Theoretically, you can make it fit without adhesive or fittings, which you must avoid as they affect light transmission.
For multicolour printing in each layer, the AMS is a must. I wouldn’t say it is impossible to mimic the behaviour, but that would require intensive and prone to errors edition of the g-code.
In your case, the yellow logo mixed with the black letters may be the hardest to achieve in a layer change procedure, but I can only check if you share the .3mf file.
Here is the .3mf file. I’d like to believe I’m just missing one fundamental step because the current assembly is perfect, I just want to identify specific parts and make it only print those without affecting the cut itself. Dad’s Lightbox.3mf (1.4 MB)
oh and if you do this, you are best off purging some extra filament off after feeding the new filament in, the tower might not take enough to make it go from yellow to black or other way around fully.
yes, make a save on the filament and name it multicolor or something so you know this works for filament changes, also at end of print it will because of the code stop to think like its changing filament, just click to proceed at that point so it finishes.
I’m pretty new here so excuse me for asking a bunch of questions but is it just that easy? I just edit the filament settings to have that line of code, slice it and print it as-is and just change the filament when the pause happens?
Every time it would swap filament on AMS you will get a prompt on screen and bambu studio that print paused by user, then you swap filament to correct color, and press continue
yes it is that easy, also very very cumbersome if you have a lot of layers with multiple color, but you only have 12 filament swaps in that so you good. ofc you still need to sit and monitor for that print period
