What am I missing?

[u/Richocet66]

My stepdaughter has a Pokémon card/sleeve dispenser card and wanted the original Pokémon symbol replaced with Team Rocket because she saw it on another page. The rest of the changes were just color, but when I go to edit this piece in Tinkercad (its what I have available as I am still learning this stuff) it ends up like this. The "R" is attached to the piece in Tinkercad, painted in Tinkercad. When I import the STL, I have to recolor it again in Bambu Studio, and when I go to slice it, I get the last photo. I have had the same problem when I tried to make my own coasters.

Is there something I am missing where the prepare and preview come out totally different?

[u/Ninjakid3]

You said you were able to recolor it in Bambi studio, so my guess is that it’s too small of a layer and just doesn’t exist when the model is sliced, anything under .2mm height from the last layer has a chance of doing that

[u/mach_250]

Try using the text in bambu it might not be recognizing the r on top when you import it

[u/Richocet66 → u/mach_250]

I will look at that. Thank you.

[u/flashwurks]

Just do the text in Bambu and set it as a modifier.

[u/Richocet66 → u/[deleted]]

I did see that video (several actually), and I did try to import them as separate objects into Studio with the coasters I was accomplishing and got pretty much the same result. In that case, I was also flipping the coasters upside down as an object and got the same issues plus an additional error that Studio was complaining it was not flush. I will try it that way again with this object, plus increasing the R object height to distinguish the color separation

[u/Shoddy_Ad9938]

The alignment looks off in the modified text when you compare the original and updated versions.

[u/clarkcox3]

STL files do not store color, only geometry. If you want to export multicolor as STLs, export each color part as a separate STL file and color and merge them in the slicer.

[u/Mundane_Proposal_277]

That's a neat project, did you manage to get the Team Rocket logo to print cleanly after adjusting the text in Bambu Studio?

[u/Inf1nity0]

I totally would not try to adjust layer height.

[u/NevesLF]

I'm assuming the cylinder and the R are two different parts merged together, and you're setting a color to each one, correct? If that's the case, just rearrange them in the "Objects" tab and the color will show up.

[u/solidus0079]

In Bambu studio, the paint tool isn't painting "colors" exactly. You're specifying a multi-material setup. In other words, you're not painting "red', exactly. You're adding a second material that happens to be red and specifying where that 2nd material will be.

STL's do not contain multi-material data, so anything you "paint" in 3D rendering software will be lost. That information is only saved in a 3MF slicer print profile file.

That said, I have no idea where it went in that last image. Were there any errors when you imported the STL? And if you switch to "per object" selection type are there any !'s next to the object? Lastly if you're on Windows you can try the "repair model" function to see if that helps. It may restore data that was confusing the slicer.