Operation Manual
Creating your own printable le: from STL to gcode
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The key to printing in two different colours is that you need two different STL les; one for each
color. So in your CAD program, you have to save your le in two parts (you will get two stl les). In
Simplify3d, you can place both stl les over each other to create one object again.
You will also have to make two different slicing processes; one process with the right extruder and
one with the left.
STEP 1: click ‘add process’ and select a process for ‘Dual Support’, with your desired material and
detail properties (fast, medium, or detailed). This loads the prole in which the right extruder is
primary and the left extruder prints support.
STEP 2: Double-click on the process and click on the ‘select models’ tab. Select the models that you
want to be printed by the right extruder.
Printing with dual extrusion: allocating the right process to the correct extruder .
Printing with dual extrusion: allocating the right process to the correct extruder .