Ist there any documented way of installing 3d chameleon on an IDEX machine like Sovol sv04?
One extruder should run 3dchameleon (PLA/PETG).
One extruder is set up to run TPU only.
How would you design such a setup?
How would one deal with different toolchange routines?
Has anyone done something similar?
Thx
This is something I'm looking into myself. Except, I would like to stack the one extruder with more than one 3DChameleon to get 8 or more colors. Do I buy multiple start up kits or a start-up kit and an add-on?
Well, that seems at least doable...
If you're only installing it on one of the extruders, then the installation is no different than any other installation.
Just make sure your tool change gcode knows that all the 3DChameleon extruders are actually on the tool head you select, that is, T0 or T1. We don't use T toolheads in our code, so it'll work just fine.
That means that in your case, you'll want to specifically add the "T0" or "T1" switch for those explicit colors. In the slicer, select your colors or support material according to them. I recommend T0 being your support tool, and T1 being your 3DChameleon... then in the GCode, Extruder 0 is the support, Extruder 1-4 are the different filaments of the 3DChameleon. So, in the tool change gcode, you'll have an {if} block looking for T0... which will only contain the simple GCode "T0" to tell the printer to switch to T0... and when it's switched to any other extruder, it'll insert T1 and be followed by our If block so insert the proper motions to select the new colors. Don't forget to adjust our if block to also look for 1-4 instead of 0-3.
Other than that, it'll operate as normal.
Bill