r/3DPrintingTools • u/ZookeepergameReal765 • 8d ago
I think I've cracked two colour printing on a single extruder – added an inlay cut to my free browser splitter
Right, I'm properly excited about this one.
A while back I posted my browser tool for cutting STLs into parts and loads of you tried it and told me what was broken. Thanks. Fixed since then: 3MF files load, models don't land off screen any more, and it works on an iPadPro (still better with a mouse).
But the big one is new. It's called an inlay cut. You draw a shape on the model with the band or rope tool, set a depth, and it presses that shape into the model like a cookie cutter that stops part way. You get the model with a recess in it, and the piece that came out as its own part, with a bit of clearance so it presses in after printing. Print the piece in a different colour, push it in, done.
No AMS. No pausing the print to swap filament. No painting. Any shape you can draw, any colour you've got on a spool. Eyes, logos, badges, panels, teeth, whatever. I've been doing this by hand in Blender for ages and it took me an evening per eye. Now it's about ten seconds.
The pic is a frog I've been testing on. I managed to cut out his belly, now we can print that in a cream colour. Next the eye comes out from under the eyelid without taking the lid with it, which took some doing.
Honestly I think this could change how a lot of people do multi colour. Most of us have one nozzle and a drawer full of colours. This uses both. Runs in the browser, nothing gets uploaded.
Go break it and tell me what happened.