All those into 3d printing and (multiple) materials is the target of this question , so I am re-sharing here !
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Thinking about materials and 3d printing:
For the current “one stl per color/material” approach, would there be an interest in having the stl exporter in CoffeeScad optionally generate multiple stl files : one stl output per color ?
I think there is a specific “AMF” format, that has everything all in one file (slic3r supports it too) but I don’t know who controls the spec, if it’s truely open, etc.
I believe that’s exactly how it’s done though, one STL per color.
I remember us talking about that format a few month back actually (it boiled down to “yuck, xml” :P)
I’ll add AMF support down the line, although I don’t know of any open source 3d printer supporting it (the multiple stl approach is used by reprappro for their multi color mendel)