Another quick colour mixing print test from 3DR,

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Another quick colour mixing print test from 3DR, this one’s at 0.1mm layers - print time of 27mins.

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Waiting for the 3DR to be available as kit or to be RepRapped :slight_smile:

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And for reference this model is the Twisted Floral Vase by cmetzel http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:55203

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That is amazing.

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Beautiful!

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Thanks, still experimenting with clever ways to drive the extruders, at the bottom it’s ‘dithering’ and at the top they are running at variable speeds. Speed mixing is better :slight_smile:

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Wow, looks great!

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Congratulations. It looks really nice.

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@Sanjay_Mortimer yes that was with Slic3r’s new spiral function, so nice to use and quite quick to print on the 3DR delta. It was almost 3 times a long to print on the MendelMax using ‘normal’ layers.

I did think about active mixing, but found a good way to get nice blending using just passive components inside the melt chamber, they still force a spiral and flat blending process to ensure the different feeds are being churned and folded together. I hope this will continue to work well as I didn’t want the hassle of sealing moving active mixing parts to the outside. Still need to do a lot more testing on the many feed version, but it’s looking promising.