I hope someone can explain what I did wrong. Why didn’t this object piece fill entirely with color?
I’m a printing newb using a P1S with AMS 2. I printed a flat file using PLA with a colored section on one side, and a raised area to accept a magnet on the other. The file imported into BL Studio with the raised area on top. I rotated it over to access the area needing color, then used Studio “edge detection” and “fill” to fill with color. The fill area appeared fully filled. Then, I flipped it back over and printed it. As you can see, it didn’t completely fill with color.
I suspect that there’s a setting I overlooked. What did I fail to do?
The color fill didn’t completely fill the pattern voids/grooves with solid bodies, just “painted” the colors on those surfaces. So when you flipped the piece back over, the brown color filament was being extruded over nothing below it.
I imagine this would print better with the grooved/colored side up, but a protrusion on the other side would indeed complicate things. Other option is to completely fill the voids with a solid and then paint the pattern on top of that with a color (the slicer will automatically “embed” the color in the print). This could be done fairly easily with an SVG graphic overlay, for example. Or, worst case (arguably), add supports under the grooved & colored parts (slicer should do it automatically if supports are enabled).
For further (and perhaps more relevant) advice it would be helpful to post the slicer project file you’re working with.
HTH,
-Max
Thanks for answering Max. I’m uncertain if I understand what you’re saying (still a noob). I think that you’re recommending that I use a cad app to create new colored objects, and then replace the cutouts with them? Sounds like a lot of trouble, but it will give me an opportunity to use the cad I’m trying to learn.
I’ve attached the .3mf file that I used.
-Lars
DishwasherStatus03Metric - Sign.3mf (669.7 KB)
The issue is twofold: One, that the support on the left side failed/didnt support. Two, that there are only two layers of material there to work with, so the slicer is putting 1 layer as black (as an overhung support) and 1 layer as brown. This looks like the quality you’d get if you set your “top surface shells” to 2, so I doubt this is a slicer or machine problem - this model won’t tolerate it that well. You need more room for more layers, or to do fancier better things with the support to make it behave perfectly in the one and only one layer it has to work with. (multimaterial support, 0 gap, etc)
Yea so you can see in the slicer, if you scroll by layer, that the initial layers have a void where the cutouts are for the colored parts. The green starts on the 3rd layer, and the brown on the 5th. Here’s a shot of the 3rd layer where you can see the empty spaces.
As to how to fix it… that’s kinda up to how you want to design it. I mean I kinda like the engraved inlay look… But you could fill them and draw the design on top so it is all flat.
Or go with the supports option (enable in the Support tab). But you’ll need to do some manual configuration because with just the default settings the slicer doesn’t think the model needs supports except under the brown “steaming” plate part. Maybe that’s the only support really needed, if the other colored sections came out OK.
You can also manually “paint” areas to be supported, similar to how you applied the colors. I’d probably go that route instead of trying to get the slicer to do it automatically.
Cheers,
-Max
Oh, thats not the orientation it was when I loaded it.
If you arrange it face-down, there are indeed those gaps that would need to be printed with very fine tuned supports (they dont normally get allowed to occupy such a small space)
I’d recommend printiing it face up with supports, IMO.
I was just following the sequence of flips in the original post… 
But I’m not sure what’s going on with the left side of the print in that photo, why it looks different from the rest of the surface, since I didn’t see anything like that in the posted 3mf. Maybe this is a newer version or perhaps I assume too much.
-Max
