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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

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[–] SomeAmateur 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] slackassassin 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

6 witches brewing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I raise you one pumpkin dragon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It doesn't matter how many you make; you'll never stop Spider-Man, Hobgoblin!

[–] Imgonnatrythis 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They look great. Couldn't you have just done a filament switch for the stems though?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe but it looks like the highest point of the pumpkin flesh is higher than the lowest point of the stem so it wouldn't look as good. This way is much less waste and faster because you can print all the stems at once.

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

Yes, exactly. The bottom of the stem is lower than the top of the pumpkin.

Plus I don't like filament switching.

[–] Mnem667 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like the pumpkin body curves over and then down to the stem, so it would be a lot of filament swaps.

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

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.