Printing different with different profiles on the same print?
Hi Guys, I want to make some coasters for my friend as a Christmas present. Ive added a screenshot below. I want to print the main part with wood PLA with a colour change to a different colour of PLA for text and a SVG of her dog. Now, I know how to do a colour change, but I'd like to print the wood PLA at a higher layer height than the PLA used for text and SVG. Is there a way to do that in PrusaSlicer? I'm using a Ender 3 Pro, so I'm wondering if that option is only available for Prusa printers?
I did think about making a jig to hold the 100mm x 100mm coaster to the bed and print the wood PLA with a 0.6mm nozzle. Then change to a 0.2 nozzle or less and print the text colour at say 0.12 layer height to get the best resolution for the text and SVG. How do I deal with starting the print at a higher layer height? Is it through the slider similar to a colour change?
Any advice guys?
Thanks in advance!
RE: Printing different with different profiles on the same print?
Yes, assuming you're using 2.2.0 or newer. On the row of icons near the top, third from the left "variable layer height".
Also, you can do this and a whole lot more using modifiers.
RE: Printing different with different profiles on the same print?
You cant practically change nozzle within a print. For a start getting the nozzle height between 2 nozzles identical is just not going to happen on a normal printer. Its hard enough doing it with a idex thats designed to do so.
If you know how to do a colour change and thats working for you on the ender then it should be relatively straight forward for you.
Set the slicer to do your base out of the wood filament using one layer height (say 0.3). Then using a modifier (either layer height or a normal box modifier) you can set the top to be printed at a lower layer height. That takes care of the different heights you want printing.
You can then add a colour change/filament change at the correct layer using the normal method. Except what I would do is instead of just colour change I'd use the right click add custom gcode option at that point. You can then add in the gcode for the filament change but also add in any gcode needed to accommodate the new filaments potentially different printing temperature etc too if needed.
RE: Printing different with different profiles on the same print?
@towlerg
Thanks mate! YES! I will have a play with those settings.
Thanks for taking time to reply
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RE: Printing different with different profiles on the same print?
@neophyl
Hey....Phil!...its you again!
Thanks for this mate...I will have a look at this later today.
Stay safe!
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