The Surprising Practical Uses of Color Change in PrusaSlicer

We always tend to move further and make more complex projects. This time we returned back to basics. Did you know that you can use the color change/pause print function to insert a lot of things inside your model to make it better?

Music: Joakim Karud - Great Days

[Crackbaby]

That last one was by far the best! The rest I either knew or already used.

[willfiguex]

That pla overhang on tpu caught me off guard.
That was nice.

[notjannet]

The pause to add supports made from another material is an interesting one that I'd not considered before, definitely interesting applications could be made with that one.

[woodturner]

The very last example is interesting. Never thought about using a stand alone support then removing it. Has anyone made videos of examples of this process?

[mvadu]

That extreme overhang support is an brilliant idea 💡

[TheHertzi]

putting the electronics inside the case while printing is one of the best ideas.

[_gamma.]

Inserting magnets with the color switch feature is awesome, I’ve done it a few times and it always turns out so nice

[monstroPT]

The very last tip, blew my mind due to the simplicity of it.
Felt like "the egg of Columbus"!
Congrats!

[mnp]

Discovered that last tip a few years ago and it blew my mind. Super underrated. I have a production part with a large overhang (lots of wasted material in supports). Insert a PLA puck right before the overhang and boom, saved print time and material. If only I could automate the insertion process...

[freeagentlyfe]

Unrelated but the fact prusa is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R fan makes me really happy

[ennioschnieder]

Just in time for some new ideas for christmas, thanks for the great inspirational video!

[kruk]

🤯 about support block, I’ve done all mentioned above but never even thought of the last one, brilliant

[DombiD]

First I thought, hey I use these features already, but then came the last one, with the pre-printed support with another material which won't stick. Never thought about it! Thanks for sharing!

[JeromeDemers]

ok that last trick of adding a support just blew my brain! I think I am going to design and print that same part to understand it my self.

[outlying]

This is mind blowing, even when I'm familliar with this feature I never thought about all those extra things I can do with it - Prusa you guys are the best

[centralintelligenceagency]

As usual prusa setting the gold standard in hobby printing

[rcmaniac]

As others have said, that last one was not expected. I was literally thinking about trying to print a really complex model in TPU and went "nah, the supports alone wouldn't be worth the effort to try and remove... and that assumes it succeeds", but with that method... I may have to rethink it.

[AustinSteingrube]

Super kudos to the person that dreamt up the last one. <mind blown>

[sed]

Brilliant! I didn't know most of these. Opens up a whole new level of printing for me!

[MohamedAli-vfvy]

WOW! I never thought of any of these Ideas. I never knew PrusaSlicer could do that!!