I have a two color item I want to print out from TinkerCAD.
The problem I have is that it seems like the STL comes out as one item or I can add the two pieces as parts but they don’t line up perfectly.
If I use the obj file, it doesn’t seem to have an option to apply the .mtl file.
So is there another way to do this?
Design is here: 3D design Single-layer patch | Tinkercad
Just use the paint option in Bambu Studio. See here https://youtu.be/oRkMkEw1JF4?si=s1CB-cjY6eYjfocA&t=266
Output both parts separately as STLs and then load them at the same time in Studio (ctrl-click to select both files) and when it asks if you want to load them as a single object with multiple parts, say “yes” and the two pieces should be perfectly aligned. If they’re not, go back and look at your TinkerCAD file, there has to be something wrong there to explain it.
I think that did it! Thanks. I’ll try printing it as soon as my current job is done.
Ah, figured it out, have to hit the plus under filament to get more than one color active.
Not sure why this is a default behavior, seems kind of a pointless interface item. But whatever
I could only imagine if you had 4 AMS’s connected and full, half the display would be filled with 16 filament choices. I would think they do that so you turn on what you want to use on that plate.
I’d like to bump this topic. I designed a pixelated minecraft wolf for my autistic son in about 30 minutes in tinkercad. My ADHD brain and tinkercad just vibrate at the same frequency. I have freecad, and fusion, and openScad, but I still turn to tinkercad when I want to knock out a simple prototype in record time. The AMS has changed 3D printing forever for me, and it would be nice to marry it with tinkercad. It took me over an hour to go through and select the blocks of each of the 4 colors and export them as separate STLs. Let me reiterate that… It took almost 3x the time to manually split the colors that it took to actually design the print. The OBJ from tinkercad assigns a unique color code to each color, e.g. “usemtl color_2829873”. I don’t really care if you parse the mtl file to figure out what that color is (even though its trivial), but it would be nice if Bambu Studio could recognize that there were in fact 4 individual colors, such that they could each be assigned to unique slots in the AMS.
I’m actually creating my own software (for some especially fun things) that creates OBJ/MTL files (along with STL and STEP files). I’m only on my second day with my X1C, but I’m VERY disappointed to hear that the slicer ignores the materials specified in the OBJ file. Does it use materials in the 3MF file? I assume it must as it seems to use that to save the project. But I’m even more disappointed that it seems to have thrown away all my color painting when I reloaded the model after an update. THAT is a serious strain on the workflow! Where can I find details on these behaviors and places to submit/support feature improvement suggestions?!
Has anything changed on the topic?
Is it possible to create a model with defined colors?
I just learned that exporting from TinkerCAD as an .OBJ and copying that obj file into Bambu Studio preserves the colors I’d set in TinkerCAD (at least as of Bambu Studio 2.0).
Yep it’s worked as of several versions ago of Bambu Studio, I’ve adopted this workflow: First SAVE before adding the OBJ; a common issue that happened is after selecting existing filaments in the popup window - it would all turn one color, if that happened, just delete, or undo, then manually delete the additional filaments, then re-import, select existing filaments, after adding new filaments still get added - click (-) to remove the extra ones.
BUT NOW with Bambu Studio 2.0 you can just delete or merge the extra filaments after the fact, so it’s WAY way easier now!!!
Thank you! I couldn’t imagine having to paint all the intricate details and this saved me so much time.
THIS was the solution for me.
