the16bitgamer@lemmy.world to 3DPrinting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoI love adding in little icons like these to my prints.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down11
arrow-up1187arrow-down1imageI love adding in little icons like these to my prints.lemmy.worldthe16bitgamer@lemmy.world to 3DPrinting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarebeeng@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoSlicer trick or in the models themselves?
minus-squarethe16bitgamer@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 months agoEmbedded in the models themselves. I made an SVG of the Icon, the I turn it into a sketch, then scale and push into the area I want it. It’s doable in Fusion 360 and FreeCAD. Though FreeCAD takes some messaging to get it to work well.
minus-squareSphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoI do it in OpenSCAD too with a depth-map https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Other_Language_Features#surface
Slicer trick or in the models themselves?
Embedded in the models themselves.
I made an SVG of the Icon, the I turn it into a sketch, then scale and push into the area I want it. It’s doable in Fusion 360 and FreeCAD. Though FreeCAD takes some messaging to get it to work well.
I do it in OpenSCAD too with a depth-map https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Other_Language_Features#surface