Illuminati Mixer Tool - 3D Print in the color you want! Brought to you by FIRST FTC Team 10098 - Two Eyed Illuminati
A Cura plugin that adds support for the M3D Quad Crane 3D Printer with QuadFusion Extruder.
This Plugin for Cura allows users to define 8 tools set up in Cura for printing on the M3D Crane QuadFusion 3D Printhead.
The included word document provides step by step instructions. Below is an overview.
First Install Cura.
Open the included Cura project to load all the printer, material and profile settings.
The colors assigned in the machine settings are only for visual representation in the Cura tool and are not really used with this plugin. So pick any materials with a color close to what you want the end color to look like. You can see what you will print prior to slicing.
Mixtures that are defined in the plugin settings are what really affect the final mixture of the 4 filaments.
Users will pull individual .stl or other files in Cura, and then assign a color from one of 8 extractors defined.
- Use Cura's "Merge parts" function to get related materials to fit together nicely in Cura. Once it is merged, you can select individual parts of the merged part by holding ctrl and clicking desired part.
- Tools such as Meshmixer may be used to split original single .stl files into multiple .stl files.
To install the pluin file in windows, put this python file Illuminati.py in the plugings directory found at: C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.0\plugins\PostProcessingPlugin\scripts Restart Cura to be able to see plugin. Goto Extensions -> Post Processing -> Modify Gcode . From there select a script button, select the illuminati plug-in.
Typically 4 filaments are CMYK with Cyan in input 1, Magenta in 2, Yellow in 3 and Key in 4. When assigning values to each tool, the sum of the for comma separated inputs representing the propotional amount of filament for the mixture should sum to 1. Current Version contains Support for 4 extruders. (not sure if it will work for 2)
The Temperature entered in the pluging will be used for all the mixtures as there is only one extruder on the Quad Crane.
Cura is a 3rd party slicing software created and maintained by the folks over at Ultimaker. This software is provided for free and can be used to generate .gcode files for use with your M3D Quad Crane 3D Printer.
M3D is one of the leading manufacturers of consumer 3D printers and filaments in the world. M3D is the company that produces the M3D Quad Crane 3D Printer.
melt is a plugin that adds support for some of the new / advanced features of the M3D ProMega 3D Printer. The Illuminati Mixer was forked from MELT built by gargansa.
Updated 5/23/2019 with tested version !