DWC and Lots of Tools
-
@nanoplane There never used to be a limit but one was introduced with version 3 some time back. However, I was told that was 50 tools.
Ref mixing hot ends, now all we need is one that actually mixes. I'm working on it.,..... You'll find the quad also suffers from the stripey toothpaste effect. M3D mitigate it a bit by adding transparent filament into the mix. But that reduces the other combinations to 3 inputs and we need black and white as well as CYM.
-
@nanoplane, this issue is caused by RRF running out of message buffers, due to the very long response needed when DWC requests the 'tools' subtree of the object model. I think the best fix will be to change DWC to request the data for each tool individually when there is a large number of them.
-
@deckingman said in DWC and Lots of Tools:
we need black and white as well as CYM.
When I tried 3 color mixing, I had a hard time to find one vendor selling all the CYM filaments.
Did that change over the past 3 years?
I also had trouble because Cyan often was refered to as lightblue or other less helpful names. Same to magenta.For your on_the_fly mixratio changes, would it help to have 3 (or 6) encoders on the printer and a small LCD that would show the RGB/CYM values? Or an RGB-Led that indicates the chosen color?
-
@o_lampe said in DWC and Lots of Tools:
@deckingman said in DWC and Lots of Tools:
we need black and white as well as CYM.
When I tried 3 color mixing, I had a hard time to find one vendor selling all the CYM filaments.
Did that change over the past 3 years?
I also had trouble because Cyan often was refered to as lightblue or other less helpful names. Same to magenta.For your on_the_fly mixratio changes, would it help to have 3 (or 6) encoders on the printer and a small LCD that would show the RGB/CYM values? Or an RGB-Led that indicates the chosen color?
You'll still have a hard time finding CYM filaments. But unless you can truly mix them together, it's pointless because when the "mixed" filaments come out as striped, the colours will vary depending on the viewing angle. I simply settle for light blue, red and yellow (with white, black and clear).
Getting the filaments truly mixed is still on my list of objectives but I've largely taken a break from 3D printing just now. Maybe I'll get back to it at some time in the future and re-visit my 6 input mixing hot end which was showing promise but still had some way to go.......
-
@deckingman said in DWC and Lots of Tools:
Getting the filaments truly mixed is still on my list of objectives
Back in these days, I started experimenting with a post processing script that mixes the colors while printing the perimeters. The nozzle would run in rectangles across the perimeters instead of individual straight tracks. It was horrible, because the Diamond hotend was heavy and the small moves made the printer shake.
