Monkey Business - Filament Painting

AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL RESALE WITH TIER 2 - V2 FRAME ONLY

This Hueforge model was created with separation of the foreground and background elements in mind to produce visually impressive depth . This complex color/low waste model uses 11 different colors (white being used twice which is color 12 in the 3MF). AMS/MMU not needed. Manual filament swaps can easily be done with pauses. This model will only be available to club members.

I have included 2 different 3MF files for Bambu Studio. One for people with an AMS unit, and one for people with NO AMS (manual color changes). I used 2 AMS units to print this and assigned colors 9-12  into the AMS slots 1-4, and then just swapped them out when color 5 started printing. If you have 1  AMS you can assign the filaments  based on the reference chart below. If you do not have Bambu Studio I recommend using it to look through the settings and copying them to make a Hueforge profile template for yourself in your slicer of choice so that future prints will be quick.  

Pro Tip: If you are using more colors than you have AMS units you can manually unload the last spool after the print starts. With 1 AMS when it gets to slot 4 in the print it will error and force a pause. You can then load the new colors (5-7) in AMS slots 1-3 then put color 4 back in and repeat this process by unloading color 4 when it is complete it will pause when it is time for color 8. With 2 AMS you can do the same above just with AMS slot 8. It will pause at 8 then you can load colors 9-12 into your AMS slots 1-4. You don't have to let it force pause if you make it back in time to swap. This is handy if you are worried about missing the timing of a spool swaps.

The background color was actually supposed to be more of a very dark purple but the hex code for Overture Space  Gray was way off in hueforge and it is more of a pale silver. I actually like the way this looks, but a dark tone would also work well. If you substitute colors results will vary.    

AMS SLOT GUIDE: The model colors will go in and be assigned to the following slots depending how many AMS units you have.

MODEL COLOR - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

1 AMS - SLOT ---- [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] [2] [3] [4] [1]   [2]   [3]  [4]

2 AMS - SLOT ---- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [1]  [2]   [3]  [4]

3 AMS - SLOT ---- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Print at 100% infill with a layer height of 0.08mm with a base layer of 0.16mm. The profiles have a height modifier to print the first 0.64mm @ 0.16 layer height as that is the min depth/non blended portion of the base color. If you use a different slicer set all your color changes before doing the modifier as it changes the amount of layers. This shaves off approximately half an hour of print time. 

Filaments and Layer Swaps:

Filaments Used:
PLA Overture Space Grey Transmission Distance: 1.6
PLA BAMBU CYAN Cyan Transmission Distance: 5
PLA BambuLab Basic Jade White Transmission Distance: 5
PLA BambuLab Basic Pink Transmission Distance: 8.5
PLA BAMBU BASIC PURPLE Transmission Distance: 5
PLA PolyLite Magenta Transmission Distance: 1
PLA BambuLab Matte Charcoal Transmission Distance: 0.6
PLA BambuLab Matte Dark Red Transmission Distance: 1.4
PLA BambuLab Basic Red Transmission Distance: 5
PLA PolyTerra Pastel Peanut Transmission Distance: 0.5
PLA PolyLite Yellow Transmission Distance: 10
PLA BambuLab Basic Jade White Transmission Distance: 5

Swap Instructions:
Start with Space Grey
At layer #10 (0.88mm) swap to Cyan
At layer #14 (1.2mm) swap to Jade White
At layer #19 (1.6mm) swap to Pink
At layer #26 (2.16mm) swap to Purple
At layer #29 (2.4mm) swap to Magenta
At layer #31 (2.56mm) swap to Charcoal
At layer #35 (2.88mm) swap to Dark Red
At layer #39 (3.2mm) swap to Red
At layer #41 (3.36mm) swap to Pastel Peanut
At layer #43 (3.52mm) swap to Yellow
At layer #46 (3.76mm) swap to Jade White for the rest.