Open the world of dual-color printing from simple models!
Need an advanced and colorful challenge? 3D printing is a fun hobby, and one that you can make as simple or as complicated as you like. Making stuff in a single material, for example, is pretty much the standard option for most 3D printers and projects. But what if you wanted to print something in more than one material? This is where a dual extruder 3D printer comes in handy. What's a dual extruder 3D printer? In software terms, “dualstrusion” works by overlaying two separate (but interlocking) models on top of each other in the same physical space, and the slicing software issues commands to the 3D printer to distinguish between them when printing the object. Separating the different colors. Each color of the model that you wish to print is separated into different individual STL objects and then assigned to a particular extruder. Once each of the STL objects is set, the models are combined and sent to the 3D printer to be printed. For example, if you were ...