Hi!
First try to use the Silk Dual Color Bambulab (red-black) and I got one face as expected, red with a bit black and a metal touch, but the other face is almost pure black!
Can we control this? Is it possible to make all the surface appearance like the red one? Or it is just lucky?
Thanks!
Not the way it works with the Bambu’s. If you look at the tip of the filament, you can see one side being red, the other being black. So with a steady, non-twist feed, one side of the print will be mainly red, one mainly black and top and bottom dependant on the direction of the surface pattern.
If this pic roughly shows what is in the nozzle, a left to right line will appear mainly red, a right to left line mainly black. And of course, it all depends on the orientation of the color split in the nozzle.
With a co-extrusion mixing nozzle, you could mix a desired tone throughout from multiple, individually colored filaments.
No, this is not possible. It is like trying to make something black turn red, which is exactly what you are doing. You could slightly improve this for orientation, but you will never get rid of the black.
When i use dual color silks i test print a cylinder so I now how to orient the object for the desired effect. Also keep in mind the travel direction of the nozzle can have an effect as well.
I have the same problem with the dual color filament. I printed dual color filament blue/black. On one cube, one side is metallic blue, one side is blue with a little black, and two sides are completely black.
What settings do I need to use to make all sides metallic blue with a black effect?
Is bambu slicer ever going to have “print direction” like orca uses so we can do multi color silk.
Basically you have to be sure the filament isn’t twisting before going into the printhead, done that I personally set a fixed clockwise direction of printing. Doable through AMS, the first important thing is to place the spool and be very gentle with the filament’s head, it has to be plugged into the feeder of the ams as it natually wants. so don’t pinch it, just lift it and accompany it to the plug. you will control the direction of the colours by rotating the model instead.
