Dual color shell with dual extruders possible?

[thetech]

I would like to know if there is a way to print and object like a vase with 2 shells and have the outer shell printed in translucent and the inner shell in a solid color? I have a dual extruder printer, and have been able to print in 2 colors using different .stl files for each color but could not figure out how to do different colored shells or if that's even possible.

Thanks

[LambdaFF]

A classical bi color process is to merge 2 STL into an AMF.
If you have the skils, you define the inner shell and outer shell as 2 different parts.
If you don't, try and do the following :
- original model is #1
- scale your vase to a smaller scale, try 95%. This is #2
- do a boolean operation to substract #2 from #1. This is #3
- Create an AMF by combining #2 and #3.
All these are doable in Meshmixer.

Just check in the end that you respect the basics : minimum thickness...

[curious aardvark]

what printer do you have and what are you using to model the vase ?

[Geoff]

I would like to know if there is a way to print and object like a vase with 2 shells and have the outer shell printed in translucent and the inner shell in a solid color? I have a dual extruder printer, and have been able to print in 2 colors using different .stl files for each color but could not figure out how to do different colored shells or if that's even possible.

Thanks

Easy, make one then duplicate it and rescale it slightly smaller, export both STL seperately and print as a dual extrusion.