11 pumpkins printed! The bodies and stems are printed separately and glued together. (I'm not rich enough to have a multi material machine.) gonna give em out at the office.
STL https://www.printables.com/model/302562-pumpkin-with-separate-stem
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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It looks like the pumpkin body curves over and then down to the stem, so it would be a lot of filament swaps.
I've been experimenting with that sort of thing. I've been experimenting with a slicer and g-code hacks to do inlays and other simple multi-color prints with just one swap per color. It looks like at least some printers could manage OP's print OK. One of my tests was a jack-o-lantern.