The particularity of Blender is that it is 100% free, open source – which is why it is constantly being improved – and that it benefits from a large community that regularly meets around the world to share best practices and user challenges. Or (of course) copy the Gcode to an SDCard and use that.Created in 1995, Blender is a complete 3D modeling software, very popular in the world of animation and video thanks to the many features it offers. Then this post on how to print on a Creality Ender 3 using Ponterface to interface to it. See this post on how to use Pusa-Slicer to produce Gcode that actually drives the 3D printer. To print this Freecad text example STL file we need to slice it first. Save the project and export this Freecad text example as a STL file. The final article ready for slicing and 3D printing. Now hit the cut option.Ĭhange the view from wireframe to “as is” and you should see a grey slab with the text cut out of it.
the plate) then using ctrl-click select the shapestring extrude. If you do accidentally produce more than one extrude delete the others before continuing (right click it → delete) The result will be that while you cut one text string out of the block there will be another still sitting there, which will make it look like nothing has happened. THIS IS WRONG! The Apply button has been hit 3 times and the OK button as well! Delete the last 3 Extrudes!
Just click on “Top” on the dice in the top right corner. Make sure after you have done this that view is directly from the top NOT like the in the screen capture below. In order to see what we are doing we need to go in View-Draw-style and select wireframe (you can do this by the icon short-cut too). We could save this, export it as an STL file then use slic3r to get a g-code file and print it. With that example just stop before you start adding the two holes and come back here. If you need to know how to do this then it is exactly the same as I did in this (even simpler) example HERE. I’m going to skip over making the 3D slab. Where I know what a tweak should be I’ll point it out. I’m running Ubuntu 18.043LTS but this should flow right for Windows/Mac or any other Linux flavour with minor tweaks only. One of the items that had me guessing for some time was how to incorporate 3D text into a design.Īs a firm believer in the principle of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) I started out by making this really simple childs nameplate stencil. But it is a complex tool and sometimes finding the route in to a solution can be difficult. Freecad is a great tool for developing 3 dimensional drawings for 3D printing.
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