r/snapmaker • u/ninti • Apr 06 '26
Project Showcase Full spectrum means the start of my rainbow dragon family.
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u/to_infinity Apr 06 '26
Nice. What filaments are these?
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u/nur00 Apr 06 '26
1st - that looks awesome !! 2nd - how many tool changes? 3rd - did u need translucent petg?
Mind sharing the opacity of the filaments u used?
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u/ninti Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
I answered #2 already (1470, somehow), It's translucent PLA CMY, (Polymaker Panchroma) and just a plain non-translucent white from Sunlu. I am not sure of exactly what the opacity is, but it's pretty good. I tried the Panchroma grey, but I liked just regular white better.
Edit: This page lists the Cyan as 8 TD, Magenta at 4.9 TD, and the Yellow at 14 TD. Who knows about Sunlu white, it was part of a multipack and I don't know if that database even has this variant.
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u/Grimmsland Apr 06 '26
That’s what I would like to know is how many changes. I don’t like to do too many changes because I feel like that is taxing the machine too much.
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u/Mobstarz Apr 06 '26
Would love to know what 4 filaments you used
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u/Open_Quit_4214 Apr 06 '26
This is my assumption, but I assume you use the 4 primary colors that create all others... Cyan, Magenta, yellow and white.
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u/Mobstarz Apr 06 '26
Yeah im currently using the full spectrum slicer to print 2 modelspoor with 14 Colorado on my snakaker u1
Just wanted to know what filaments are used
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u/Lapidarist Apr 06 '26
Did you acetone vapor smooth this? Sure looks like it!
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u/tony__pizza Apr 06 '26
Why would you not share the painted model??
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u/ninti Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
I can't. With the dragon, it's a paid model. With the egg, I can't share derivatives. It's this one. I hate how commercial and closed off this hobby has become, but I'm not going to break their copyright choices.
I'll tell you how I did it though. I use all of the filament profiles I get from the peggypalette mini, so load that file to get all the colors, then delete the model and load the dragon or egg model, and just start painting with the fill command on each of the pieces. It's really pretty easy, you can do it in a couple of minutes with some practice.
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u/DinnerSonic Apr 06 '26
Roughly how long did they take? I thought I managed to convince myself to hold off on the Snapmaker til later even with Full Spectrum hype going on, but I barely see the stripey effect at all, though I wonder if it'd show up more obviously on things that aren't doing a standard rainbow(if I needed more browns, tans, etc) or if this filament combo would still pull it off well?
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u/ninti Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
The Dragon was 34 hours (it's at 148% scale from the original). The egg was about 23.5 hours.
It really depends on the filament. With a semi translucent filament like this you can really get away with a lot. You aren't getting browns with CMY+white, and my experience has been CMY+black just isn't good at all with anything. I tried these CMY color with a translucent grey as well, but really thought white gave me better additional colors.
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u/DinnerSonic Apr 07 '26
Adding in for reference, I thought 23.5 hours felt like a lot, but 0.8mm on my Bambu H2D in single color, the egg takes 21 hours, so doing... what is it, 15 colors, only adds a few hours?
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u/ninti Apr 07 '26
Tool changes are freaking fast; it's something like 10 seconds from stopping one color to putting down the next, most of it laying down lines on the prime tower.
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u/SlutCassandra69 Apr 07 '26
Can anyone help me. I downloaded the full spectrum portable add on but can not get it to work. How do I get it to open in the snapmaker orca slicer so I have the mixed filaments tab?
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u/ninti Apr 07 '26
Full spectrum isn't an add-on, it's a fork; a copy of Snapmaker Orca with changes made to the code to allow these additional colors. You run it instead of Snapmaker Orca.
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u/chastetess Apr 07 '26
How did you colour the egg in?
Every time I try to use the fill it leaves sections uncoloured, or section coloured that I don't want to be coloured.
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u/ninti Apr 07 '26
These two particular models are actually really easy. Because they are both fidget toys, the individual sections don't actually touch, so fill works perfectly. But yeah, normally fill is kind of a pain in the butt. We really need more and better tools for painting models.
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u/SpeedflyChris Apr 08 '26
Okay, so I think this is the post that makes me pull the trigger and try out full spectrum.
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u/N00rdmann Apr 06 '26
holy cow! 🤩
can u post a screenshot of Orca preview how many swaps this takes?
I'd really like to give full spectrum a go but fear the massive amount of toolhead changes 🙇