Comment by aqueueaqueue
8 days ago
Is this a 2D colour thing on a 3D printer?
If so am loathed to print those because you need an automatic material system and it creates a lot of poop (cut-offs when switching colour)
It think it might be OK to have say 5 white layers then a couple of ink layers.
Also how do you get on with the slicer with fonts.
I found this difficult when printing a dog tag. I sort of got the impression it may be better to have a "gcode font" rather than go TTF->Triangles (STL)->Gcode
However overall: great effort and I love openscad. I love the idea of it I only used it once as I have been busy!
It supports both with a single toggle, either you use MMU/AMS in which case it's all on the same level, or you don't use it and all colors have a different height level making it easy to just M600/pause your print and change the color.
Designs of this kind don't leave that much poop, there's not much waste when it's only a few layers.
> Also how do you get on with the slicer with fonts.
Haven't had many problems with them, I usually enlarge the text until I'm happy. I also usually do $fn = 360 for OpenSCAD which uses so many triangles that you can't really see it not being round with your naked eye.