u/dstutz

Here's a fun tip. I wanted to print the Dummy 13 Quad for my kid and grouped each color together and exported as a single .stl. Then added each to a single plate and assigned the colors. Then switched the plate to "Print by object" and it treated each group of parts as one and printed each color in sequence with only 2 filament changes.

https://imgur.com/w6o3uqU

The only thing I noticed and might change moving forward is it didn't seem to purge in between (since it wasn't a normal color swap?) It printed white, then pink, then black and the initial pink was straight up white. I paid attention to the printer and when it was switching to black I paused it over poop bin and attempted to extrude which it didn't let me, however when I resumed it purged a lot (which I think is normal for the CC) so I got my pure black anyway. In the future I think I'll just add a skirt if I have room, but I'll play with this some more. Obviously this won't work in all situations due to clearances but it's great for small batch for minimal attention to the printer.

I put the few poops onto the tray in the middle there: https://imgur.com/W6OZtqd

I did do a straight up multicolor print that I knew was going to be wasteful (153 changes) but I wanted to try one out so I printed a chicken. https://imgur.com/j0SL4Lq The chicken came out ok, but wow, yeah, I'm never doing this for real. There was some bleeding of the red and black into the brown. The red and yellow looked great and real vivid.

The model was ~15.6g: https://imgur.com/wzqzN8b

The prime tower was ~ 10g: https://imgur.com/fBhEweg

The poop was ~37.4: https://imgur.com/FTGuk8a

Anyone commenting about the blue plastic on my scale can come sit on my couch, spill liquid and and I won't care ;).

Also, if you've made it this far, I totally misunderstood the "proper" loading for the CANVAS which is just push it in until it grabs and walk away. I thought you had to "Load" it from the menu just like pre-CANVAS so my first test of some plant tags I LOADED white, then LOADED black (which cut and removed the white and purged so black was there. Then I went to print it and the first thing it does is cut the black, load the white, purge then print. So yeah 🤦‍♂️.

And again, CANVAS impresses me. I decided to try to finish up a spool printing someone and started the print and loaded another roll of same color to see if the auto backup worked. So by the time the print finished it looked like there was about 8" of filament left and I was assuming it was going to dumbly unload it and kick it out into the PTFE between the hub and CANVAS but nope, it said "pausing" on the screen then went back and went through roughly 3-4 cycles where it purged a bit, wiped then moved the head out and then back and like "knocked" the flapper a couple times until it had used up all the filment, then it "completed" the print.