My K2 is somewhat crippled with a broken extruder housing (hose clamp thingy), a fix mounted on it, and unable to calibrate belt tension.
Anywho, today, I am making a simple breakout box project in my electronics shop. I am no “Mr. Carlson” and do not have the patience to do plate labeling correctly. So I thought, that’s make a cover plate with labels in Tinkercad. I did so.
The plate has raised words on it. All this needs is a simple layer color change at about layer 6 or 7.
I tried and tried and could not get my BL Labs X1C to print it.
So I brought ole crippled K2 up and it printed it perfectly (at least good enough for me) the first time!!
Now, it is not the X1C’s fault. I can not slice change color by layer correctly in Bambu Studio and I have no idear why. Maybe if I used only Babmu filament it would have allowed it to slice, but I just use the cheapest I can get on Amazon, or typically ESUN.
It doesn’t even render correctly in Bambu Studio. I thought that maybe it just could visualize the results, but would print okay; nope. What you see in Studio is what you get.
I just installed latest beta version of Bambu Studio and still cannot change color by layers and render it.
I usually use Orca with my K1c. And, like with the latest Creality Print, it’s easy to pause on a layer and manually change filament–which I’ve done a lot for applications like this. I was going to say to make the text bigger but you figured that out. When you think about a line width of 0.42mm, you’ve got to make the text pretty large for the width of the characters to be anywhere near half a mm thick. Ten mm text looks great. Five mm text is about the minimum I can get to work. But I can do smaller text if I DEBOSS it rather than EMBOSS it. You have to do an additional color change, but it generally creates cleaner text. I try to make sure there’s at leas two layers of the text color, since at 0.2mm most filament will allow the under color to bleed through significantly if you only do one layer of color for the text.