Spinning top - 2 pieces. Slic3r & Pronterface, ABS, lulzbot fine_no support profile. Fully enclosed printer. TAZ4.
Fan on. Random seam position. Infill before perimeters. 5mm brim. Minimum print speed 10mm/s. 230c/95c
PET and Lulzjuice.
Extremely impressed with finish. Especially on the point. This thing spins like a boss. 
Spin it up! Use to do that back in the day 
Nice print edlink. What do the letters represent? Is the base a slab of MDF or a plastic print? Been a long time since Iāve seen a tri scale ruler.
The yellowish stuff is just a post-it note stack. White ABS doesnāt photograph very well. I need a darker background, but today I was in a hurry to get those pics taken soā¦
Weāre having a ābring your kids to workā day in April, I was thinking of making these as swag for the kids.
Letters represent company I work for.
Iām a drafting and design guy. Thus the ruler.
3D printed swag ā¦ 
Much depends on how many kids get signed up.
We toyed with the idea of making some kind of whistle. 
As in, thatāll teach the planning committee to schedule days like thisā¦ 
Dancing Baby Groot - with material change. Unfortunately, the darn thing broke before it completed. I did however manage to do a material change during print. Relatively obvious where.
ABS - TAZ4 - Slic3r & Pronterface - Lulzbot Medium no_support profile
Super glued it together and almost perfectā¦just missing the tips of a few ābranchesā.
I might have to find that file. So how does one do a material change mid print?
I use Pronterface & Slic3r.
On the Pronterface console thereās a āpauseā button.
Click that pause button when the nozzle is somewhere in the infill sections. Quickly pull the old filament out, stuff the new filament in, click the same button which has now been renamed āresumeā, and cross fingers.
Do your best not to move extruder head in the process. Itās that simple.
edlink,
New to 3d Printing (well almost), my TAZ 5 should be here Tuesday.
Iām a designer/modelmaker and Iāve been using 3d printed parts for many years, but this is the first time that Iāll actually own one.
So is Pronterface/Slic3r a good place to start?
Also, I noticed that you said you could pause the printer in Pronterface; could the pause be inserted into the g-code at a specific layer?
Thanks for any help you can give to a noob!
Sorry - didnāt see this until today.
I really like Pronterface and Slic3r. Lulzbot provides great profiles as starting points for specific materials.
I found CURA was not my friend, but that could very well be a Coke vs. Pepsi thing. 
Iām playing with Kisslicer now instead of Slic3r. Iām pretty sure each program has things it excels at and things itās a little weaker at.
I donāt know if you can program a pause into the gcode at a specific layer, but Iād be surprised to find out itās impossible.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I think Iāve decided on KISSlicer (now that I, apparently, have my graphics issue figured out) and then into Repetier-Host to run things.
But, As this is my first go into 3D printing, First things first,; Iāll be going through mhackneyās must excellent āA Strategy for Obtaining Great Printsā https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/a-strategy-for-obtaining-great-prints/1326/1
As for the pause, thatās something Iāll work on once my feet are good and wet.
Thanks again!
There is a cura plugin that is available by default that allows you to do this. It is like āpause Z at ___ mmā.
