3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

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majkelos
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3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

Post by majkelos »

Hey,

I'm pretty new to FreeCAD. My question is if something like this is possible in FreeCAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mkf67_ZnEM (in Spanish but you will get the drift).

I dabbled a bit. And ended up doings something like here:
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There is kind of a long way from here in my opinion. First off how would I cut this so it's nice to 3d print.
Steps so far:
-Draft:
ShapeString
Downgrade
Transform so they touch

-Part:
Extrude
Union (with refine = true)
and then played with thickess etc.

It doesn't work with all the fonts

Any tips would be appreciated

Cheers
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Re: 3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

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I make a shell letter by letter and twice to have the 2 thicknesses, it's a bit long, but I don't have better
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Re: 3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

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No new insights, but the original file contains unnecessary objects and can therefore be simplified.
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Re: 3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

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And anyone has any idea how to make these letters more separate but cut each other out a bit?
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Re: 3d Letters Overlapped for 3d Printing

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I don't have the font so keep your extrusions I can move the letters one by one
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