Diamond Nozzle

[jesse]

This thread is about using the Diamond nozzle.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wr ... olor-3d-pr

Kickstarter rewards are shipping tomorrow.

[jesse]

More info: http://reprap.org/wiki/Diamond_Hotend

[ZakRabbit]

I can't figure out how to embed, but there's a video showing RGB printing with one of these hot ends. What slicer would be compatible with that?
https://youtu.be/saryph9t9L8

[KAS]

I can't figure out how to embed, but there's a video showing RGB printing with one of these hot ends. What slicer would be compatible with that?
https://youtu.be/saryph9t9L8

Use the actual youtube video link, not the short URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saryph9t9L8

Then remove the s from https://

then paste that between the "youtube" tags

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saryph9t9L8[/youtube]

then it will embed.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saryph9t9L8[/youtube]

[ZakRabbit]

very cool, thank you.

[jesse]

I received the Diamond Nozzle. It requires a 15mm heater cartridge which are sold on ebay for about $3. A 20mm cartridge is too long.

For the diamond nozzle, I ordered three heat sinks that are e3d v6 clones.

RAMPs 1.4 + a CNC GRBL shield are being used to drive the six stepper motors.

I need to make a custom mount since my clone heatsinks are a different size.

[IMBoring25]

I can't figure out how to embed, but there's a video showing RGB printing with one of these hot ends. What slicer would be compatible with that?
https://youtu.be/saryph9t9L8

At least in RepRapFirmware, color mixing is implemented by defining a tool to use multiple extruder drives using the M563 command and then issuing your extrusion commands for each of those extruders in a colon-separated form, i.e. G1 E1:1, which would extrude 1mm of filament from each of two drives the active tool is configured to use (assuming relative extrusion distances and units in mm). Regardless of what slicer you use, it would be a pretty trivial script to write to parse the total extrusion amount for each move and divide it into a colon-separated form at a specified ratio.

[ZakRabbit]

I can't figure out how to embed, but there's a video showing RGB printing with one of these hot ends. What slicer would be compatible with that?
https://youtu.be/saryph9t9L8

At least in RepRapFirmware, color mixing is implemented by defining a tool to use multiple extruder drives using the M563 command and then issuing your extrusion commands for each of those extruders in a colon-separated form, i.e. G1 E1:1, which would extrude 1mm of filament from each of two drives the active tool is configured to use (assuming relative extrusion distances and units in mm). Regardless of what slicer you use, it would be a pretty trivial script to write to parse the total extrusion amount for each move and divide it into a colon-separated form at a specified ratio.

I gotta start learning how to code... I'm good at the mechanical stuff, but I am missing out on the control side of things.

[Maddog]

ZakRabbit
Did you ever get your Diamond extruder to work well?