3d Printing Two Color Signs Text in FreeCAD

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Learn how to add 3d text to your models with FreeCAD. In this video, you will learn how to use ShapeStrings in FreeCAD and how to use Bounding Boxes to position components of your model. This technique is perfect for designing models with 3d text you will print on any 3d printer, including printers from Prusa, Creality, Monoprice, Anet, Flashforge, and JG Maker that I have reviewed on this channel. In the video, I demonstrate how to use IdeaMaker to split apart models and print them in 2 colors.
The following playlist includes additional videos about multiple color 3d printing:
• Multiple Color 3d Prints
The following playlist is a good place to learn FreeCAD:
• FreeCAD for Beginners
Content in this Video
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Using Text in FreeCAD
4:20 FreeCAD Part Design Workbench
8:56 FreeCAD Draft Workbench
11:13 Locating Font Files
13:37 Using ShapeStrings
16:03 Understanding FreeCAD Bounding Boxes
17:43 Using Bounding Boxes in Formulas
19:06 Extruding / Padding a ShapeString
20:10 3d Printing a FreeCAD 2 Color Model
21:25 Splitting Colors in IdeaMaker
Let's continue to learn together. Irv
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@munawarsoomro8958 2 жыл бұрын

Sir, yours are some of the best videos I (an old engineer) have found. Thank you!

@tevans910 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Irv!! I've been using shapestrings for quite a while but never used the bounding box. I always learn something watching your videos. Thanks again!

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@parrottm76262 3 жыл бұрын

It is well worth the effort to learn FreeCAD. There is so much you can do with parametric modeling.

@NewStreamLine 2 ай бұрын

GREAT video! Thank you very much. ♥️ P.S. I use Prusa Slicer to slice the STL.

@avejst 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always 👍 I love that you found this center feacture Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it worked for you.

@Tres-D Жыл бұрын

Great profesor!!!

@darrennew8211 3 жыл бұрын

Great tip on measuring the text. In PrusaSlicer, you can slide the pointer to the right layer and click on the button there to add a color change. It even shows in the preview so you know you got it right. (The color change happens before the selected layer, not after.)

@Tres-D Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

@johndoughty4514 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for a great video, I was wondering if you have a video on multi color that are all flat almost like inlays?

@zk_6312 4 ай бұрын

Nice video though if I try to export an stl like you do, Cura always flags it as not watertight. So, I usually bring up the mesh workbench and create a mesh from body or something like that. Once the mesh is created I am able to export the mesh stl which is now watertight. Success! I did not do it quite like you did, but I was finally able to add text to my model and this video helped me figure it out. What I did was create the string I wanted though I used the fonts in C:/Windows/fonts. Then I added it to the body, used transform to move it into position and then used either pad or pocket in the part design workbench. Worked great.

@b.r.1523 11 ай бұрын

This is exactly the video I've been looking for. Thanks!

@julias-shed Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. A really neat trick with the parameters that’s saved me a lot of work 😀

@balacv02 3 ай бұрын

Fantstic. You are amazing

@mjago 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@antonyhoward2759 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

@LudwigSpiegel 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking your valuable time to share your knowledge! You're truly a good man.

@kaoskev Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed today. thanks.

@dogzapper50 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great teacher!

@bigdaddyed88 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your videos and your ability to teach. I jumped right into this video and understand it completely. Do you have another video on how to make a border around it extruded to the same height of the text?

@haroldsbeaver206 2 ай бұрын

In your video you display the parameters of the Bounding Box. Unfortunately I am not able to do that. So what is the secret of the parameters. Thanks

@joestewart1980 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video Awesome as Usual!!

@JottyHB 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Irv, thank you again for your videos. They are very informativ. But this time there are two things I do not understand. 1. I don’t have an idea why your formular to center the text works. How does freeCAD know what shape is meant? 2. I successfully placed text on a surface. But the body with that surface is now placed in front of a weird plane which has an angle of prox. 20 degrees to the XY plane. I don’t know, how to get rid of it. It’s hard to describe. Keep on going and stay healthy!

@balacv02 3 ай бұрын

I have Version 0.21 of FreeCad. the Shape.Boundingbox parameter in not there?

@now-you-know-it 3 жыл бұрын

DrVax Thanks for the very visible pointer and icons. It also help by you clearly and at the right speed explaining what you are doing. This is great!!! Now the Constrains and Measurements. If you look at your videos on KZfaq due to the blue screen the Constrains and Measurements are hard to see due to red on blue. We found the best screen is white'ish or grey'ish with the Constrains and Measurements in black. Is it possible for you to test this and see the results. Very very nice and clear pointer Thank you

@guerillagardener2237 Жыл бұрын

How could i aplply this to create informationial text on and next to peices for cutting on a laser cutter, anyone know?

@tasmedic 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much, Irv! I use freecad a lot and I have a good idea that it will have taken you hours to find out how to make text work parametrically like this. The whole point of FreeCad is that it's parametric, and I always felt very awkward kludging things manually to get text to fit properly onto my solids. The part about adding components to bodies by dropping them onto the list was also very useful. You're awesome! A request: could you help us work out how to project things onto surfaces using FreeCad? I've seen the tool but I'm too frightened to use it!

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help.

@Matthewjo22 2 жыл бұрын

thanks doc for great video, i fallowed your video until the timer i was going to pad the letters but every time i hit the pad it will disappear completely

@randorfja Жыл бұрын

I'm more interested in how to create a multi-colors model in FreeCAD to send to a print shop. I have no printer. I suspect STL is not the answer for my use cases.

@nickp385 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video Doc, How do i just print Text alone, either a word or just a letter?

@r-saby5023 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Val, I follow all what you said in your video but I clic on protusion, it's take time, then my part disapear and if I put an heigh then clic OK, I get an error message telling me Pads: Result has multiple solids. This is not supported at this time! Can you tell me what I do wrong ? I did it one time and all was OK, but non, nothing work!

@pandaxz93 2 жыл бұрын

I got the exact same problem.

@jeffzerb7710 2 жыл бұрын

@@pandaxz93 also

@richardwineland76 2 жыл бұрын

I can not use bounding in the formula, error no attribute named Bounding. Any help would be great.

@jeffzerb7710 2 жыл бұрын

Bound not Bounding

@drpainsjourney 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Dr. Wax. PLEASE don't start to speak in the first 3-5 sec of the video, since it have to do some cache before we can here it, and I always have to restart ANY movies on KZfaq doing to this. Else? You always do so great content for us, thank you :-) You might look into like Voron or RatRig CoreXY printers .... I think you will be greatly surpriced how good they are.

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Good advice thanks

@warped_spacetime 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's useful new information I didn't know about. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work in my Freecad setup (Version 0.19 Fedora Linux). I followed along carefully, but the formula editor returns "Result: No attribute named 'BoundingBox'".

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Makes you have the case of the parameters exactly the same as my example. Case matters in Freecad parameters.

@warped_spacetime 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakeWithTech Thanks for replying and prompting me check again (even though I was checking case etc very careful umpteen times....) It turned out that I was typing BoundingBox instead of BoundBox. Works now! Many thanks.

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

@@warped_spacetime My pleasure.

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

I'm all cocked up here. I'm using release 0.19 (Git 24291), but when I try to pad the ShapeString, in PartDesign, I always get "Pad: Result has multiple solids . This is not supported at this time." What am I doing wrong, as I am following your video to the letter ?

@jeffzerb7710 2 жыл бұрын

I get the same thing

@LarryBerg 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a tutorial using Shapr3D on iPad?

@brucemcardle 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, although I was hoping it was to show how to inlay the text into the surface of a part (so it could be printed as separate text and part on single extruder printer)

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

Just use a pocket instead of a pad.

@brucemcardle 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakeWithTech Yes, but the padded text would need to be slightly enlarged (in outline) to account for 3d printer inaccuracies. Changing the padded font size wouldn't do this.

@MakeWithTech 3 жыл бұрын

I did not understand what you were looking to do. You are correct scaling up a complex shape does not work. Maybe combining a bold font with a regular font would work. It would take some experiments to work it out.

@brucemcardle 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakeWithTech I would print the text in one color, then print the part in another color (for us mortals with simple 3d printers). The part would have the pocket of the text (for alignment and ease of gluing). I've found my Ender3 there needs to be about .2mm boundary around tightly fitting parts.

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

What on earth is the "Doctor VAX Channel " mentioned at the start of this video ??? I thought I had subscribed to MakeWithTech ????? Is Erb / Erv / Erne / Erg Shapiro actually Dr Vac/ Vax ???

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

How do I get any reply ??? Do I need to join some other "paid subscription channel" ???

@Brodraugen Жыл бұрын

Oh no. I hit the subscribe button too hard...

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

This is akin to buying a Lamborghini, only to discover that "the steering wheel" is not yet supported.

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

Will he bother to respond to any of the comments posted here ????

@kevingpearce 2 жыл бұрын

A complete waste of my time. I cannot pad onto a multiple solid ????? That means it is useless to attach it to ANY previously designed solid ???? W.T.F. ???

@jeanpierre8594 2 жыл бұрын

Bla bla bla

@Hordebarraged 2 жыл бұрын

Skipped through this vid...normally find your stuff very informative but , good god this was painful, needlessly involved and slow. I rejoice that I discovered Design Spark Mechanical especially for my text needs ...Type in text box ...Project onto surface...extrude or emboss. Done!