multi-material designs and OpenSCAD
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF. Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
For a different slicer, I created the two objects as STL, and the slicer
did the "merging" (well, each object had its seperate nozzle, it simply
interleaved the layers)
Michael
fre. 10. nov. 2023 21.51 skrev jon via Discuss discuss@lists.openscad.org:
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF. Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
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creating the two objects in OpenScad was done with a conditional or two,
and basically having object A to one STL, and then object B-object A to the
other
Michael
lør. 11. nov. 2023 00.51 skrev Michael Möller private2michael@gmail.com:
For a different slicer, I created the two objects as STL, and the slicer
did the "merging" (well, each object had its seperate nozzle, it simply
interleaved the layers)
Michael
fre. 10. nov. 2023 21.51 skrev jon via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org
:
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF. Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
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Michael:
Thanks!
How did you ensure that the two objects were placed correctly with
respect to each other? You created two OpenSCAD models which were
located correctly with respect to each other, exported each of them as
separate STL files, and then loaded them into the slicer? My slicers do
not respect the absolute positions of the objects that are loaded,
although they do respect their orientation. I wonder if exporting the
two as a single 3MF would have worked, perhaps better
Jon
On 11/10/2023 3:51 PM, Michael Möller wrote:
For a different slicer, I created the two objects as STL, and the
slicer did the "merging" (well, each object had its seperate nozzle,
it simply interleaved the layers)
Michael
fre. 10. nov. 2023 21.51 skrev jon via Discuss
discuss@lists.openscad.org:
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos
about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF. Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
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This slicer (KissSlicer) respected that the two objects shared the same
coordinates - but it had a "load-two-colour" mode for that. If I loaded
them as two models, I got two pieces suitably distributed on the plate
Michael
lør. 11. nov. 2023 01.03 skrev jon jon@jonbondy.com:
Michael:
Thanks!
How did you ensure that the two objects were placed correctly with respect
to each other? You created two OpenSCAD models which were located
correctly with respect to each other, exported each of them as separate STL
files, and then loaded them into the slicer? My slicers do not respect the
absolute positions of the objects that are loaded, although they do respect
their orientation. I wonder if exporting the two as a single 3MF would
have worked, perhaps better
Jon
On 11/10/2023 3:51 PM, Michael Möller wrote:
For a different slicer, I created the two objects as STL, and the slicer
did the "merging" (well, each object had its seperate nozzle, it simply
interleaved the layers)
Michael
fre. 10. nov. 2023 21.51 skrev jon via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org
:
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF. Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
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The following code creates a sphere with a partial spherical divot cut
out of it, and it also creates the sphere that fits in the divot. If I
export this code as a 3MF and then load it into PrusaSlicer, with
PrusaSlicer set up to support a multi-material XL printer, then the two
objects (partial sphere and smaller full sphere) appear as two separate
objects to be printed using two separate extruders. So, this works
immediately and well. If there were additional objects, then I imagine
they would be assigned to different extruders, until we ran out of
extruders at 5. Then one would have to assign objects to extruders
manually.
So, it seems to be working as well as one could hope
Jon
difference() {
sphere(10);
translate([5, 5, 5])
sphere(5);
}
translate([5, 5, 5])
sphere(5);
On 11/10/2023 4:09 PM, Michael Möller wrote:
This slicer (KissSlicer) respected that the two objects shared the
same coordinates - but it had a "load-two-colour" mode for that. If I
loaded them as two models, I got two pieces suitably distributed on
the plate
Michael
lør. 11. nov. 2023 01.03 skrev jon jon@jonbondy.com:
Michael:
Thanks!
How did you ensure that the two objects were placed correctly with
respect to each other? You created two OpenSCAD models which were
located correctly with respect to each other, exported each of
them as separate STL files, and then loaded them into the slicer?
My slicers do not respect the absolute positions of the objects
that are loaded, although they do respect their orientation. I
wonder if exporting the two as a single 3MF would have worked,
perhaps better
Jon
On 11/10/2023 3:51 PM, Michael Möller wrote:
For a different slicer, I created the two objects as STL, and the
slicer did the "merging" (well, each object had its seperate
nozzle, it simply interleaved the layers)
Michael
fre. 10. nov. 2023 21.51 skrev jon via Discuss
<discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
I have a Prusa XL on its way to me, and I watched some videos
about how
to design for multiple materials. Basically, you create
separate
objects (which touch) and export the whole design as a 3MF.
Prusa
Slicer is able to see the separate objects and you can assign
them to
different extruders.
Does anyone have experience doing this kind of design with
OpenSCAD?
Any pointers or gotchas?
Thanks!
Jon
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On 10.11.23 23:24, jon via Discuss wrote:
So, it seems to be working as well as one could hope
I fear that's just a side effect of the experimental feature
"lazy-union" discussed a while ago.
So it's more working well by chance, real support for that
needs to be added in a better defined way.
ciao,
Torsten.