Learning Studio - having trouble understanding modifying object color/filament

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This is probably a very simple question…I need a ELIF…apologies as this is my first thread here if I’m posting in the wrong spot!

At the core of this question is that I’m simply trying to be able to change both the body color and text color for an object in a (Makerworld) model. Which I thought would be simple but I’m rather confused.

I am using one of the Makerworld spool storage dry box models (Spool Storage Dry Box - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld) and when I bring it into Studio, I find I can see the different objects (I’m quite new, so I have a limited understanding of Studio), and understand how to select the objects.

However, the part I am not grasping is:

  • Why can I filaments for some objects but not others?
    When I go to change an object color (AMS slot/filament), such as 'clip-pla.stl’ (on Plate 2), I can make that change to the body of the clip (not the text on it), but I can’t make the same change to 'clip-abs-gf.stl’ (Plate 3)…rather that clip when I try to change only changes the text color. But I can’t figure out why - it’s like the objects on Plate 2 control the body, and the objects on Plate 3 control the text.

The objects all seem to look exactly the same to me in the Prepare tab… as stl objects that I can see on the different plates within the Process>Objects section in the left menu. And across plates the objects look the “same” in the left menu.

  • Separate but related, I am struggling how to understand what controls the text color/filament, as I don’t see a text object. So I see I can change the text color by modifying Project Filament #2, which changes the text to a different filament on Plate 2. But if I say want to change a specific object like ‘clip-abs-gf.stl’ on Plate 3, I can’t figure how to, for example, have say a white filament for the text and blue for the body. I could get ALL objects on Plate 3 to have the same color combination, but I can’t figure out how to get a specific color combination for just one object. The goal would be to print different colors for each clip, so represent the filament container they will be in.

Obviously I’m missing something core to how to manage objects! :slight_smile:
But this is making my head spin!
Again, if this is the wrong spot for the post please let me know and I’ll move (or delete!). Thank you-

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In the object list you see a small paint bucket to the right of the objects.
Click on this to open the paint tool.

Here you use the ‘Fill’ function with the option ‘Connected same color’ selected.
Click on the plate with a new color and/or click on each letter with a new color.

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