May 18, 2022
Another flexidragon. This one with slow change color filament to see how many colors I could get in it.
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Another flexidragon. This one with slow change color filament to see how many colors I could get in it.
About 10 different failures and tons of heartache before I finally got this beast to print. But it's finally done.
The final color change dragon. no brim. no raft. perfectly level bed, sliced by SuperSlicer.
This one is printed on Morris so I have to manually edit the GCode post slicing to change out the M600 (which Morris doesn't have enabled) to M25's and then enter the commands for retracting, loading, purging the filament and for the beeps to alert me that things need to be done.
Thankfully, Morris has Octoprint enabled so I can just click "resume" since M600 isn't enabled.
Glow in the dark dragon. This filament is a little persnickety but it's so coooool when done
the bigun is called "Jeff from Accounting" so I have been told. the little un is bby jeffy until the new owner can come up with better names.
This is the result of weeks of painstaking trial and error. There were multiple failures until I got this right. Even now I have to do it one of two ways depending on the printer I'm using.
I learned a lot of new skills.
new slicers to get the layer height per color right
Learning specific GCodes to get the printer to stop and signal when it's time to color change (and entering custom gcodes into the slicer so they will work during the print)
Learning to compile printer firmware because the commands I needed to make this happen were not enabled by my manufacturer.
It was worth it. Now I can make pride dragons!
My roomie was amazingly patient as I learned. They are so happy :D
The dragon I printed has a new home. The new owner (and the dragon) seem pleased with the arrangement
ever wondered what 33 hours of printing looks like? this is the flexi-dragon print. I am printing at super fine detail (.12mm layer height) with 100% infill. so it takes a while. It doesn't need to take this long. I know others who have printed a dragon in 13 hours or so, but I don't know that they are this level of detail
Print Specifics: Layer height: .12mm infill: 100% Filament: PLA slow color change rainbow Supports: no Adhesion: brim
request for a custom print. Flexi-dragon in Enby colors. I had to configure the print to alert to 4 separate color changes. Used cura to slice and make things work. If I were to do it again, I'd make some changes that's for sure. but this didn't turn out terribly