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what are some successful text fonts that have been printed on parts. font style, raised or lowered height, and size.

when i do text i like to cut rather then extrude the letters. with a small nozzle and 1 perimeter you can get some good resolution. as for the type of fonts, i usually stick with bold block style i haven't tried any fancy cursive.

Would like to what you've done can you post some pic of what you have done

Thks

Ian

sure.. this is just what i have inside my office

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ETai ... 222327.jpg[/img]

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-yn5T ... 222335.jpg[/img]

[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3L_k ... 222342.jpg[/img]

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cHK7 ... 222345.jpg[/img]

[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6cEf ... 222420.jpg[/img]

[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ctYz ... 181510.jpg[/img]

Celtic Knot font

I forgot to ask how are you doing the set up to print. they look darn cool.

I agree with wildideas1 and would like to know how you do it.
Especially the raised text.

I've found that generating text in "Inkscape" and exporting it to SCAD with that path converter works really well. I made this name plate in about five minutes
I added the back plate in Inventor Fusion. No guarantees on how it will print

in solidworks

make your object on a plane

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-trxT ... apture.PNG[/img]

[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9HPA ... apture.PNG[/img]
extrude it, on this i chose revolve

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2Heo ... apture.PNG[/img]

make a new sketch on a plane, drag a construction line first then write the text on that line

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Gm-B ... apture.PNG[/img]
boxx-extrude that sketch "offset from surface" selecting the object as the face you want to offset text from

[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TMrh ... apture.PNG[/img]
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bfLa ... apture.PNG[/img]

boss-extude "blind" distance from the origin sketch plane

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KrOY ... apture.PNG[/img]
revolved boss from a line

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7I0m ... apture.PNG[/img]
[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9jhB ... apture.PNG[/img]

swept boss

[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fbyr ... apture.PNG[/img]

just a few to mention right quick