Color Mixer garbage?

[Sindicoro]

Ok, I've tried multiple variations of M163/M164 and M166 orderings and I can never get it to do more than 1 gradient and when it hits the second M166 tool gradient it will just repeat the first one again... Really annoying. Guess I'm just going to write my own little program to write out M165's and if those don't work I'll mimic Geetech's broken one with M163/M164.

Edit: Flashed verts firmware, will see if that makes any difference.

[Sodium100mg]

> Flashed verts firmware, will see if that makes any difference.

Still hasn't made it to the top of my list, please post if it helps.

> Guess I'm just going to write my own little program

I'd be curious what you come up with. I'm a programmer, but writing a program for this is low on my list, but if I wrote a program i'd monitor filament location and regulate the retraction and returns. My gut feeling is the problem in color mixing is related to the starvation of filament and that either the filament is retracted and not restored or the filament has dribbled out and needs a boost.

I'm in the process of testing a sleeved .8mm nozzle and am going to test a sleeved .4mm nozzle. The a10t has a strange m7 nozzle with a narrow throat, which is only available in .4mm. the m7 (MK10) nozzle has a 4mm throat, which is huge for color changing, so I've purchased 4mm to 2mm brass tubing and 2mm to 1mm brass tubing to test .8mm nozzle with a 2mm feed and a .4mm with a 1mm feed. I also have five .4mm geeetech nozzles coming which I will test with a 2mm to 1mm sleeve. Where the objective of the color mixer is a smooth blend, my target is sharp color swapping.

[Sindicoro]

Sleeves are on my list to try... The Anet A8 has been amazing since I put a 6 nozzle on it and a higher watt hot end element.

So far it looks like verts is going to do the trick, the mixer menu shows the virtual tools and gradients from tool to tool numbers per my M166 on step one, waiting for step 2 to hit but it'll be 30-60 mins. I did also notice that the last print attempt and this one have an appearance difference as well just in switching the firmware. I'll post pictures in the morning of the single gradient stock firmware object and the same file done under verts firmware.

[Sindicoro]

Worked perfectly!

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Here's the bottoms of the two, you can't see it all that great in the pictures but the line and line spacing quality seems better with verts also.

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