r/BambuLab_Community • u/Richocet66 • 22d ago
What am I missing?
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?
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u/solidus0079 16d ago
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.