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!
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.)
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?
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 RU-vid 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
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.
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!
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
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!
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 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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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 ?
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 RU-vid 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.
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 ???
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. ???
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!
