Next big thing in 3D printing.

[Redbrickman]

Multi colur and multi material printing is coming soon...

E3D demo their new multicolour and multi material printing system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfpZg3M-Eo

 

[Nifty]

Wow, that's awesome! I love the quick-change heads!

You could not only do different colors and materials (including soluble supports) but maybe even different nozzle sizes!

I like that they are really focusing on ease of manufacture and assembly.

Now all that said, I can't even IMAGING how complex it would be to build a 3D model for this to all work properly. Maybe down the road the CAD software and the slicers will work seamlessly together so you can build with "materials" in CAD and then that will all translate proper into the slicer.

Things are advancing and over time this stuff will be more and more easy to use!