https://twitter.com/CNC_Kitchen/status/1720374528985973115
Toooons of waste. 2.5/1 waste/print ratio. wow.
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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What would be nice would be a way the waste can be used to print something else like a functional part that colors won't matter.
Yeah like during the infill portion of each layer, swap the color. But I can only see that work if each layer is a separate color.
Mosaic, the Palette company, have that as a feature in their slicer and I've heard Prusa Slicer was working on it a while back.
Prusa Slicer does have a "Purge to Infill" option that removes a lot of this waste. Unfortunately, Bambu printers are infamous for their poop problems..