Business card - Layer selective colour 3D printing by RichRap

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Business card - Layer selective colour 3D printing

RichRap

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Published on July 1, 2011

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I wanted to experiment using my Filament joiner to make prints that had different coloured finishing layers (at different heights) on an object.
A business card seemed a suitable object to start with as I could place things and text onto it and vary the height of each object.

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This uses joined pieces of filament the correct length so colour changes happen on layers in the print, the text and objects on the business card are different heights (from 0.8mm to 3mm) so as each layer ends it has a different colour.

See my blog for further details.

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bstott on July 11, 2011 said:

Over the top. This is really imaginative and now skilled too!

watsdesign on July 3, 2011 said:

waw ! sweet prints :))

owais on July 2, 2011 said:

cool. This reprap caravan has gone far! Gotta catch up!

cyclone on July 1, 2011 said:

How exactly did you figure out the lengths of filament to join. You used grep to split out the layers, then how did you figure out how long a filament would cover each layer?

jasay on July 1, 2011 said:

I don't know how he did it, but I might skeinforge the object from say layers 1-10 (carve tab) and read off the mass of plastic. Then make the first segment weight slightly more. Then skeinforge layers 11-14 or whatever. Continue to build the joined filament in this manner. Just make sure each color layer is at least 2 (probably
&
gt;=3) actual layers to take up some of the inaccuracies. Finally reskein the whole object and print.