solarbird | a minor printing milestone: raised letters in a new colour (Reply)

I’ve come up with a lot of way to build text into models – I have a lot of test prints filled in with acrylic nail polish in particular and I’ve got pretty good at it. But one classic way if you’ve only got upwards-facing text is to do a filament swap mid-print, so the bulk of the object is the colour of the original filament (say, blue), and then the text on top is the colour of the second filament (say, white).

Which is what I did right here for my version of a screw-sizing tool for wood screws. I guess it’d also work for nails if they’re the same sizes. Which I think they are. But don’t hold me to that, I don’t actually know how it works.

I didn’t notice it looked like a grand piano with the back chopped off ’til later

It’s a very simple case of this treatment but it came out well so I’m very pleased. And I’ve also used up some random bits of leftover filaments – you can’t tell but there’s a black stripe all the way around the sides of this thing because I had a little piece of leftover black PLA – and also now I have also sorted a bunch of wood screws. Go me. xD

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