Print Shapes with Different Settings Using the Same Ingredient

Sometimes you want shapes in your dishes to print with the same ingredient, but in Foodini Creator you want those shapes to appear in different colors and/or you want individual shapes to have different print settings. You can easily do this by using the same name for each ingredient in Foodini Creator. 

We will use this print as an example: 

 

Here we are printing with one ingredient, using a 1.5 nozzle. The print is made up of many peas on 4 layers / positions. As we have so many peas on the dish and many stacked on one another, it is easier to see them in Foodini Creator by making each layer a separate color:

Additionally, we want each layer to have a different setting for the first layer nozzle height.

In essence, we are printing with one ingredient, but we really created four ingredients to be able to change the color of the shapes in Foodini Creator and to change a setting within each different layer position. (Here you can see more details about this print.) Even though we have these multiple ingredients, Foodini only requires one ingredient/ one capsule to make the print. 

To do this, simply keep the name of each "different" ingredient the same.

Note that if you have a different name for any of the ingredients, Foodini would request a separate capsule for that ingredient. 

Another example: 

Each star is indicated in a different color in Foodini Creator and with different print settings, but since we named each ingredient the same, Foodini uses the same capsule:

Here each ingredient name is different, so Foodini will use 4 different capsules. 

This feature also comes in handy for faster test printing. For example, when we created these heart puzzle cookies made with 3 different colors of cookie dough, we first made the print using one capsule / one color of cookie dough by using the feature explained above. Once we were happy with the results, we printed using the 3 different cookie dough colors. 

 

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