START WITH YOUR PRINTER & FILAMENTS

Your colors. Your calibration.

Make a Quick Calibration Print with your four filament colors: one rounded 200 × 18 × 10 mm print. Take just two photos: the top and either long side. Each photo measures 102 recipes. iDither learns how those colors combine and adds a named calibration row when you analyze a model.

01 · PRINT

Quick Calibration Print

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Your four filament colors

The preview and downloaded .3mf use these colors in F1–F4 order. With black and no white, walls and infill behind the samples use the color closest to white. With white and no black, they use the color closest to black.

F1#10AAC8 F2#DC408B F3#F0CC3D F4#F2EEE4

Illustrative color blends. Printed appearance depends on your filaments and lighting.

Choose your four filament colors above, then download. Open the project in Snapmaker Orca and print it with the included settings.

0.20 mm first layer · 0.10 mm regular · 5h 56m 59s
200 × 18 × 10 mm · 102 wall recipes · 102 top recipes · 10% Gyroid · Outer brim only · Smooth PEI Plate

Download Quick Calibration Print .3mf

10% Gyroid sparse infill · Outer brim only · 0.30 mm top lines. The starting estimate uses the supplied Snapmaker U1 settings. Keep the saved size, orientation and layer height.

How to take two photos

Photograph the top and either long side; both sides contain the same complete recipe set. Include the whole face and crop excess background so its long edge is sharp and large. Use a plain contrasting background, keep the camera approximately perpendicular, and keep light, exposure and white balance consistent. The Quick Calibration Print has no orientation markers: select each photo’s face and check its crop and orientation against the reference before saving.

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Your calibrations

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Optional, recommended for your printer and filaments.

iDITHER · COLOR-OPTIMIZED FDM

Turn textured 3D models into full-spectrum filament palettes.

Upload your model, choose 2–8 toolheads, and iDither finds the strongest matching physical filament set, builds the virtual mixes, previews the predicted color result in 3D, and lets you download a Snapmaker Orca project or browser-sliced G-code.

GLB 2.0, Bambu/Orca 3MF, or FBX2–8 toolheadsFull-spectrum mixesSnapMaker Orca 3MF export

Choose a textured .glb, .3mf, or .fbx GLB 2.0, Bambu/Orca 3MF, or FBX · up to 100 MiB

Toolheads How many physical filament colors should the optimizer choose?

Virtual Filaments How many colors may the model use? No-Dither uses only the physical toolheads; 64/255 include virtual colors.

Palette Samples How many color palette rows should be generated? (Max 8) When CMYK Optimized is ON, only CMY+White and CMY+Black are shown regardless of this setting.

Front Only Mode Use only the front (+Z) colors and project them straight through the model to reduce color changes and print time.

Snap Back Compat Exports virtual filaments in Snapmaker Orca V2.3.6-native format while preserving iDither’s exact recipe and optimized layer cadence as a native manual cycle. Recommended for stock Snapmaker Orca.

Layer Height Sets both the normal and initial layer height in generated Snapmaker Orca 3MF files.

Colored Walls Type how many colored wall loops to print, from 1 to 1000. Take Interior Paths respects this count: with one wall, the single-wall color also continues into infill; with two or more walls and Dual Wall Mixing On, the outermost wall uses the outer color and every additional wall and infill repeats the inner color. With Dual Wall Mixing Off, all walls use the same color. Take Interior Paths Off retains the colored band; Snapmaker Orca prints (N + 1) / 2 uncolored walls behind it, rounded up; colors fill the whole model if the requested walls cannot fit. Thin sections hold as many walls as fit.

Take Interior Paths Keeps the Colored Walls count and carries those colors into infill. Matching colors on each layer merge into longer paths with fewer seams, which can substantially reduce print time. Interior backing can affect color appearance; Off keeps the usual backing. Changing it applies to new downloads without Re-Analyze.

Top Surface Interweave Uses 0.30 mm top lines and combines colors across the upper two layers like outer and inner walls. A solid layer beneath supports the color pair. Wall colors and undersides stay unchanged. Changing it applies to new downloads without Re-Analyze. Re-export after changing model pose or layers.

Color Threshold 0 Snapmaker Orca prints every separate color patch with its own walls on each layer, so small and barely different patches cost print time. Best Color keeps every patch. Toward Fastest Print, iDither merges specks and similar colors into their neighbors, so each layer prints fewer, longer runs of one filament, with less color detail. Clearly different details larger than the level’s limit are always kept. Changing it asks for Re-Analyze.

Subdivide Mix Layer Subdivides mixed-color layers in Snapmaker Orca. On also enables Full domain. Apply subdivision to infill always remains Off.

Variable Optical Layers Uses one global low/base/high variable-layer schedule centered on the selected Layer Height throughout the entire print. The selected Layer Height is preserved as the base and initial height; every XY region uses the same height for a given layer while color assignments remain local.

Texture Optimization On considers the whole texture and model surface to clean up colors close to available Black, White, Cyan, Magenta, or Yellow filaments while preserving smooth gradients. Applies to CMY+White and CMY+Black. Changing this setting requires Re-Analyze.

CMYK Optimized On limits four-toolhead analysis to the calibrated CMY+White and CMY+Black rows. Off searches all matching four-color combinations. The CMY+White and CMY+Black rows always use their calibration in either mode.

Dual Wall Mixing On uses a calibrated outer/inner color pair when 2 or more walls are selected. Every wall after the outermost repeats the inner color. CMY+White and CMY+Black export with 0.30/0.30 mm walls at every Walls setting. Off uses one colored wall pattern with no inner/outer blend and keeps the default 0.42/0.45 mm walls. Both use the measured calibration of CMY+White and CMY+Black. It does not add a printer tool or filament.

Max Triangles Maximum printable/preview geometry triangle count. Default 1000000. Min 16. Max 1000000.

2–4 toolheads can export 255-color, 64-color, or physical-only No-Dither 3MF files to regular Snapmaker Orca Beta. 5–8 toolheads remain preview-only.

3D preview

Size Whole model

Paint the region whose colors matter most. When any region is painted, palette matching is scored only against that surface; the full model is still colored and exported.

Predicted color result — not a photographic guarantee of the final print.

TOP MATCHES WILL SHOW UP HERE

Your colors. Your calibration.

Quick Calibration Print

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Your calibrations

Turn textured 3D models into full-spectrum filament palettes.

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