I made a magsafe mount in black for my Kia and I didn’t like the layer lines on the curved parts, but it gave me the idea to try using wood

I have a 3D Chameleon MMU so I added color changes randomly throughout between two shades of brown. One is wood, one is PLA.

It honestly came out way better than I even expected!

If anyone wants the STL I can provide it!

    • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’d a cool idea and it looks really good. I’ll have to try this for myself!

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ll check the slicer again but it was really small. Most of the purge went into infill instead. Maybe like 5 grams?

      I had my purge values low to encourage blending of the colors. I might try using 0 for purge volumes next time to encourage more natural blending.

  • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Do you think printing without purge would make it look better? Or would it just blend into an medium brown

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think better, if there was always a little bit of leftover filament the pattern will be more random I think. With more gradual gradients