{"id":1763,"date":"2011-09-30T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:41:12","slug":"three-color-3d-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/three-color-3d-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Color 3D Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/making-a-custom-bottle-opener\/\">making bottle openers<\/a> for friends, and I recently struck upon the perfect design for my friend Matt.  For some reason, he still pines for a hockey team that left our home state in 1997 (THEN won the Stanley Cup.) His opener got a Whalers Logo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whalers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whalers-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"whalers\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whalers-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whalers-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whalers.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up to this point, all my openers have been single color.  But combine the fact that I&#8217;m jealous of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerbot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/the-possibilities-of-dual-extrusion\/\">dual extruder<\/a> with the fact that Matt was my <em>Best Man<\/em>, and I decided that this time I would go the extra mile.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure was straight-forward, and a huge pain in the butt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First I printed a blank opener in the base color<\/li>\n<li>Then I adjusted the Z-Height of the Thingomatic by 5.76mm (the height of the opener base)<\/li>\n<li>When I switched the color to blue and printed the tail, the printer deposited the plastic on the white base as if it were the build platform<\/li>\n<li>After switching colors AGAIN, I printed the W and the opener was done<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was a fairly simple multi-color design, but by breaking up the model ahead of time, this technique could be used for any part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making bottle openers for friends, and I recently struck upon the perfect design for my friend Matt. For some reason, he still pines for a hockey team that left our home state in 1997 (THEN won the Stanley &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/three-color-3d-print\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanical","category-projects","tag-makerbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}