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ABS filament in LEGO blue?
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Treczoks lemmy.world Treczoks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
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First, I've got to admit that i don't have a 3D printer, but I have a friend who prints stuff for me.

For this project, we need ABS as material. My friend has several years of commercial experience and research in this area, so it take this as granted.

While he has a good match for "Light Bluish Gray" and "Dark Bluish Gray", his "Blue" is off in comparison to blue LEGO bricks.

Has anyone found a close match that would be worth trying?

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0xd34d sh.itjust.works 0xd34d@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-21
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I don't have a filament recommendation for you but perhaps you can use https://filamentcolors.xyz/colormatch/ to find a potential candidate.

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kata1yst sh.itjust.works kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-02-16
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I don't have a filament recommendation for you but perhaps you can use https://filamentcolors.xyz/colormatch/ to find a potential candidate.

For what it's worth the "Lego Blue" is 0055BF

Which gives several plausible PLAs and a PETG, but no ABS sadly.

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kata1yst sh.itjust.works kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-02-16
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For what it's worth the "Lego Blue" is 0055BF Which gives several plausible PLAs and a PETG, but no ABS sadly.

Ah ha! We have a winner.

https://filamentfinder.thinkonezero.com/?c=0055bf

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B0rax feddit.org B0rax@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-22
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I don't have a filament recommendation for you but perhaps you can use https://filamentcolors.xyz/colormatch/ to find a potential candidate.

Using RGB values for physical colors in not ideal…

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Grass sh.itjust.works Grass@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-30
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I don't have a filament recommendation for you but perhaps you can use https://filamentcolors.xyz/colormatch/ to find a potential candidate.

I've used this for making wall prints that don't stand out against the paint. It's quite handy

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TrapRag lemmy.world TrapRag@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-25
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Ah ha! We have a winner. https://filamentfinder.thinkonezero.com/?c=0055bf

Looks like the filters get defaulted to pla and petg, and a lot of vendors dont make the default cut when following the link, but there are several matching options for abs and asa.

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kata1yst sh.itjust.works kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-02-16
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Looks like the filters get defaulted to pla and petg, and a lot of vendors dont make the default cut when following the link, but there are several matching options for abs and asa.

Yeah couldn't figure out how to add the filters to the URL. But yeah there are some promising ABS/ASA options!

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