Once again, sorry for the extreme delay with posting! I found myself moving to a new apartment very quickly without much notice, so I had to completely disassemble my workshop and put it back together, which took quite a bit of time! I finally settled on my next project: getting 2-color printing working with Simplify3d! Remember how I did it with the gray dice with glow-in-the-dark holes (https://madprinter.org/2017/01/22/yay-it-works/)? Well, this time, it’s soooo much easier with simplify3d! My first attempt came out interestingly:
You can see a few problems, namely melting and oozing. To reduce this, I tried to use ooze shield (builds a 2-layer thick wall around the part to catch the oozing junk before it hits the actual part), and that helped a little bit, but not enough. I really think I need to lower the printing temperature to be successful. So I’m going to lower from my usual printing temp of 210c for PLA to 195c. I run PLA through some of my other printers at 195, so it shouldn’t be any problem for my Hyrel! Stay tuned for the next step
John (aka the Mad Printer)
The Mad Printer 