What I hoped would happen was that layer one would print the outline of the letters only and leave the inside unfilled. Since the emboss was so shallow, I anticipated layer two would be a solid infill layer. Since the solid fill pattern was set to rectilinear, it would be in the opposite direction of the first layer, therefore highlighting the text. Look at the pictures below if that was hard to follow. Eureka! It was gold on the first shot. Maybe it’s already been done, and if we had researched it we may have found a blog describing how, but we didn’t. We tried something and it worked. I was satisfied but one of my students wasn’t, he immediately looked at me and told me that it would be even more impressive if we could do a color change between layer one and two. His curiosity was enough for us to think about what happens when you pause a print, and if it would be possible to easily make this work. I will be pleased to show him Monday, that yes it can be done and the result is very impressive. I tested the idea on a 4” round coaster design. We are going to give these as gifts to teachers in the building that have sponsored our Shell Eco-Marathon super mileage car. Does this process have limitations? Yes. Did it accomplish what we wanted? Yes, it did, and then some. Would we have been willing to try this on an expensive machine? Probably not. But with the products from SeeMeCNC we are very willing to try new things, there is great community of Makers behind this movement to add to our knowledge base and a team at SeeMeCNC to help us fix what we break.

Material: ABS (Silver and Dark Blue Print Height: .2 Infill: 10% SPECIAL INSTRUCTION: Using Repetier you must observe the print and pause after the completion of the first layer. Then you should raise the Z 10mm and change the filament to your color choice. This change will be the infill for the letters and the original color will be the outline.

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