Sometimes that last one gets away but it doesn't really matter.

I made the choice this year to take some time off as relax with the people that help me at shows the rest of the year. I will miss everyone going to Philly this weekend, but I needed a break, so I took it with some of my friends I made 3D Printing. Have a great @3DPrintopia and post lots of pictures!

Have you download the free ColorSmith plugin for HueForge? If not, why not? shop.thehueforge.com/pages/c… Check out the other plugins while you are there. HugeForge is free too.

I can't believe I forgot to mention that it is free!

I'm still working on colorsmith.app and hope for a release of the HueForge Plugin this week. Mostly working documentation and last minute changes. The thing that MIGHT slow it down is if I need to release HueForge v0.9.4.4 to support it fully.

This comes at a good time. I managed to snag a B250 for right at $200 and have most of the hardware I need for this build. I've also been wondering why no one is pushing air through the fins like they were clearly designed for so finally someone built a case with that in mind. A $30 cooler and some thermal compound are pretty easy to add to the BOM.

For anyone wondering about when the ColorSmith plugin is coming out. I'm guessing next week at this point. As much fun as I've been having making cool new tools and features (and webpages), I hit some burnout end of last week and didn't work much for the past 5 days, played some games, watched some TV, hung out with friends, cleaned the basement. Basically just didn't work on work for 5 days. I feel a lot better. Pay attention to yourself. Content creators and self-employed creators can absolutely love what they are doing until they suddenly don't want to do it anymore. Taking breaks after milestones is something I've learned I need to do. Take care of yourself out there.

🚀 HueForge 3MF Export Plugin v1.0.9 is out -shop.thehueforge.com/pages/3… 🎨 Smarter multi-color prints. Filament-change pauses now match physical reality — one AMS/MMU swap = one pause, regardless of how many color changes that swap covers. A 7-color print on a 4-slot AMS used to pause 3 times mid-print. Now it pauses exactly once, right before the swap. 🔄 New "Rotate HueForge 90°" checkbox in the export dialog. Rotates your HueForge(s) 90° inside the 3MF so you don't have to re-orient the print in your slicer after export. ✨ Preset quality. Standardized top, bottom, and infill patterns across every shipped preset. Per-pair Bambu/Orca flush volumes — purge is now computed from the actual filament colors on each side of a swap. Dark → dark uses less purge than dark → white. 🖨️ 10 more OrcaSlicer Bambu presets: A1, A1 mini, H2D, H2S, P1P, P1S, P2S, X1, X1 Carbon, X2D. The full Bambu lineup is now available on Orca — same coverage Bambu Studio has had. 💡 Two one-time tips on first launch: how to set 3MF as your default output format, and how to set your OS's default .3mf handler. Both dismissible and remembered. ⚠️ Better error messages. "Can't write here" now surfaces in the 3MF Export dialog instead of failing silently. 📋 Session panel polish. The 3MF Export session panel now tells you why it's inactive with a plain-language banner, and auto-activates the 3MF panel when you clear the Use STL Output option.

About 45 minutes until Office Hours.

Here are a few prints that didn't make it into the ColorDrop 2.0 announcement. Some impossible before, some just harder. Important note, the cameo style print is nearly flush across the jawline this time. The only really raised sections are the gold.

HueForge, JRRF and the EIBOS !! @hueforge @EIBOS_official @JapanRepRapFes

A reminder if you haven't already, checkout my new project, colorsmith.app and see how many colors your images have and how many they really need with the live demo.

And for the second update of the day. HueForge v0.9.4.3 is now out and available for download in your account. Mostly this is just bugfixes found during the last week of user interaction with the prior version. Release Notes: open.substack.com/pub/hornan…