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Found this while browsing #3Dprinting on Mastodon. This person used Hue Forge to slice up some floor tiles and add some color. Amazing print and good use of the app.

(hue forge is an app that helps you plan filament swaps to progressively add color, kinda like screen printing but for filament printing)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow. I admit: multicolor prints kind of make me angry with some kind of irrational insecure jealousy.

The funny part is that I don't really ever find myself wanting multi-color prints, I just hate that they look so good and I can't do them.

But these are admittedly cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Watch some videos on hueforge. The layers are different colors so you can pause and manually change filament for each color.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel the same. I have a hard enough time justifying the printers I have, let alone spending to get multi colour support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need a "multicolor" 3D printer for this. You just do manual filament swaps at specific layers. As many as you have filament colors - unlike a multi color machine that might have to swap hundreds or thousands of times, hueforge works on entire layers at once, so generally you're only going to be swapping colors 3, 4, maybe 5x...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You might as well tell me to whittle this out of birch and paint it.

I didn't get into this hobby to do things like "swapping filaments". 🤮 (kidding)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd never have thought of that sort of application. It works so well too with the depth it adds.