Uggg, I have printed two of these and they have turned out perfect. All except the lines for the socket size. They are not sticking. I am using Bambu PETG. The numbers are fine, but the lines are present, but if you touch one of them, they fall off. Am I missing a setting somewhere that may help with this?
@ScottAlexand_1727030 You could try slowing down the label color by turning down the max volumetric flow way down in its filament settings.
Or if you are using the parametric files you could try making the lines thicker.
If truly everything doesn’t stick at all maybe one of your materials is mislabeled or something…
You can move the model down so only a couple layers of the base part are above the build plate and the test the labels without printing the whole thing.
I can try making one where the label color prints on the build plate flush - it will be more filament changes but won’t shear off easily. I didn’t do this at first because of the number of versions of this I had to set up would have taken a lot longer.
@MottN I didn't think about moving it down to not print the whole thing :) Good idea.
I am printing these at .2mm layer heights. What is weird is the final layer before the lettering is at 25.0mm (at least mine are). The next layer starts at 25.4 instead of 25.2. Bambu Slicer and Orca slicer is treating it like an overhang and I think that is why it is not really bonding with the top layer. I am printing one now where I made a layer height change at 25.0mm and the slicer no longer shows it as an overhang. Fingers crossed. I will know in about an hour. I think the numbers are sticking because there is more bulk and lines are thinner. I did raise the text_depth setting a bit.
To make a thicker line, do I just modify the line_thick parameter only? What does the line_width_multiplier do? Do I need to change anything there either?
I am a total noob and this stuff, so sorry for all the questions.
@MottN K, have done some more testing. If I use parametric generator, the final solid layer to the 1st text layer does not respect the .20mm layer size. For example, it goes from 25.00mm to 25.40mm in my model and then 25.60 and so on instead of 25.00 to 25.20 to 25.40, etc. That causes Bambu Slicer to think it is an overhang and almost like it is printing in the air or close to it and does not really adhere to the previous layers.
If I move the entire model down to do a quick print to test it, it properly respects the .2mm layer sizes.
If I test one of your premade remix models, those models respect the layers sizes and looks like they would work.
So, something in the file generator is adding an extra size for the text layer in its calculations or something to do with the 25.00mm model height throwing it off.
@ScottAlexand_1727030 I can recreate what you are talking about - not sure why it is doing that but it seems to be treating as separate bodies. Moving down fixes for no good reason and changing to like the 0.28 extra draft profile also fixes...it must just be how the slicer splits the lines.
@MottN Thank you. I have pulled out all my hair trying to figure it out. I changed to .24 draft in the slicer and it went away. Weird. Printing it at .24 should not affect the hole sizes should it. Just make it a smidge taller I am guessing?
@ScottAlexand_1727030 Yeah - for stuff like this the highest line thickness is fine. I just uploaded a quick v1.2 where I just made the overlap more so I think it will more consistently see it as one body. That seems to fix it if you did want to stay at 0.2mm.
You asked above, the line width multiplier is for getting the underline on the text length right. The underline length(width) is just the number of characters in the label times that multiplier so if the font is changed, that multiplier will also change. Not sure why there isn't a way to see mm length of text or anything like that. Scad does some things nicely but its very frustrating in lots of ways too.
@MottN By cracky, I think you nailed it. Doing a print at .24mm and then I will do another in .20mm to see which I like better. Thank you for your help!
Uggg, I have printed two of these and they have turned out perfect. All except the lines for the socket size. They are not sticking. I am using Bambu PETG. The numbers are fine, but the lines are present, but if you touch one of them, they fall off. Am I missing a setting somewhere that may help with this?
@ScottAlexand_1727030
You could try slowing down the label color by turning down the max volumetric flow way down in its filament settings.
Or if you are using the parametric files you could try making the lines thicker.
If truly everything doesn’t stick at all maybe one of your materials is mislabeled or something…
You can move the model down so only a couple layers of the base part are above the build plate and the test the labels without printing the whole thing.
I can try making one where the label color prints on the build plate flush - it will be more filament changes but won’t shear off easily. I didn’t do this at first because of the number of versions of this I had to set up would have taken a lot longer.
@MottN I didn't think about moving it down to not print the whole thing :) Good idea.
I am printing these at .2mm layer heights. What is weird is the final layer before the lettering is at 25.0mm (at least mine are). The next layer starts at 25.4 instead of 25.2. Bambu Slicer and Orca slicer is treating it like an overhang and I think that is why it is not really bonding with the top layer. I am printing one now where I made a layer height change at 25.0mm and the slicer no longer shows it as an overhang. Fingers crossed. I will know in about an hour. I think the numbers are sticking because there is more bulk and lines are thinner. I did raise the text_depth setting a bit.
To make a thicker line, do I just modify the line_thick parameter only? What does the line_width_multiplier do? Do I need to change anything there either?
I am a total noob and this stuff, so sorry for all the questions.
@MottN K, have done some more testing. If I use parametric generator, the final solid layer to the 1st text layer does not respect the .20mm layer size. For example, it goes from 25.00mm to 25.40mm in my model and then 25.60 and so on instead of 25.00 to 25.20 to 25.40, etc. That causes Bambu Slicer to think it is an overhang and almost like it is printing in the air or close to it and does not really adhere to the previous layers.
If I move the entire model down to do a quick print to test it, it properly respects the .2mm layer sizes.
If I test one of your premade remix models, those models respect the layers sizes and looks like they would work.
So, something in the file generator is adding an extra size for the text layer in its calculations or something to do with the 25.00mm model height throwing it off.
I'll keep working on it. (edited)
@ScottAlexand_1727030 I can recreate what you are talking about - not sure why it is doing that but it seems to be treating as separate bodies. Moving down fixes for no good reason and changing to like the 0.28 extra draft profile also fixes...it must just be how the slicer splits the lines.
@MottN Thank you. I have pulled out all my hair trying to figure it out. I changed to .24 draft in the slicer and it went away. Weird. Printing it at .24 should not affect the hole sizes should it. Just make it a smidge taller I am guessing?
@ScottAlexand_1727030 Yeah - for stuff like this the highest line thickness is fine. I just uploaded a quick v1.2 where I just made the overlap more so I think it will more consistently see it as one body. That seems to fix it if you did want to stay at 0.2mm.
You asked above, the line width multiplier is for getting the underline on the text length right. The underline length(width) is just the number of characters in the label times that multiplier so if the font is changed, that multiplier will also change. Not sure why there isn't a way to see mm length of text or anything like that. Scad does some things nicely but its very frustrating in lots of ways too.
@MottN By cracky, I think you nailed it. Doing a print at .24mm and then I will do another in .20mm to see which I like better. Thank you for your help!
@ScottAlexand_1727030 Great!
@MottN We have success! Thanks again for your help!