3d printing letters

I am currently working on a light panel. All the printing, wiring and programming works quite well, except the letters on the panel. I always have little spaces inside, so the ink of my white pen shows also little black spaces. They are also very sensitve, so a bit of touch and they come off.

I extruded them 1 mm to the outside, font is arial black and the size in fusion 360 is betwen 3 and 5 mm. It seems it is a problem of Cura as my panel looks very well in Fusion 360, but the problem starts with creating the printer file.

Any help is very well appreciated.

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Karl Clarke

Mar 14

It's printed, if the text wasn't so thick, it would turn out much better, but if you want this panel, send me your address. It's no good to me lol! But well done on the design! A great mini panel!

Tom Riddle

Mar 14

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Yours look much better than mine 😀 I used arial bold as I thought it would avoid the problem. I will follow your recommendation and change the size to 5 mm And back to normal Arial. Might be a little rework to be done, but I will anyway modify the right side to adapt it to available hardware. thanks for the offer to sent me the panel, but as I will modify it anyway, it is not needed. A big thank you for your support and advice, it is a big help.

Karl Clarke

Mar 14

Okay, bamboo slicer seems very happy with the design. Lets see what it looks like in 43minutes.

Karl Clarke

Mar 14

Hi Tom,

It looks like you picked a letter size that is really awkward to slice and achieve clarity!

You want to send me the Fusion file and see what i can do with it?

Ideally for the MCP i used 5mm text. It may be because, (im guessing here you used bold?)

Let me know if you want to send the file, otherwise ill try this on the bamboo.

Karl Clarke

Mar 14

Hi Tom send the STL to me, and let me see how it slices on my cura, I can also print it on the bamoboo and see how that handles the slice. Kind regards, Karl

Tom Riddle

Mar 25

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The second version of the panel just left the assembly workshop. With your help, I could figure out a much better print size for the letters and it looks really fantastic now (although it can never compete with your fantastic designed panels). I used the necessary work in Fusion to add some more functions, so it provides now all buttons I need during the critical phases of hand-flying or steering on the ground.

Karl Clarke

Mar 27

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Very Cool Tom, I actuallt love the design and the KD2 buttons for the APU & P.Brake are an awesome idea! Good choice of toggle switches too! Love the spade end rather than the straight angles round ones.

Tom Riddle

Mar 27

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Yeah, I like them, too. But to be honest, the choice of switches and buttons was driven by the available stock after I build your MCP panel. I just put in what was there anyway 😀

3d printing letters

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