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Patrick
(@patrick-7)
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Bottom layers of text

I am printing this coaster with text and a color change. PS is putting bottom layers under the text instead of printing a complete, uniform solid layer and then putting the text layer right on top of it. The way it is sliced is just going to take more time and is unnecessary. Is there a setting I can change or a workaround to get a normal solid layer under the text? Thanks for any help

 

Posted : 01/01/2022 10:25 pm
JoanTabb
(@joantabb)
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RE: Bottom layers of text

Hi Patrick, 

Could you save a project file for your model, then ZIP compress the file, and attach the zip file to your next post please? 

regards Joan

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Posted : 02/01/2022 12:40 am
Patrick
(@patrick-7)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Bottom layers of text

coaster.3mf

Posted : 02/01/2022 1:08 am
Snuffleupagus
(@snuffleupagus)
Estimable Member
RE: Bottom layers of text

@patrick-9

 

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for but you can try it.

 

Coaster_Snuff.zip

 

I'm interested to see how others do this.

This post was modified 2 years ago by Snuffleupagus
Posted : 02/01/2022 4:28 am
Patrick
(@patrick-7)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Bottom layers of text

Thanks. I hope there is a simpler way to do this but this is a good workaround, if not the solution. It looks like you split off the text layers and the cylinder is for it to sit on so it is offset from the build plate. Is that correct? Thanks for taking the time.

Posted : 02/01/2022 4:39 am
Snuffleupagus
(@snuffleupagus)
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RE: Bottom layers of text

Yes that’s correct, that’s the only way I know to get what you were asking for in the current version of slicer. I would be interested in seeing if someone knows another way, but I don’t consider this way difficult it took about 5 min to edit your model in PrusaSlicer. If I was the designer I would have just built it that way and avoided that step. 

I don’t think the slicer is at fault for printing the model that way, in fact it makes sense that it would, but I and apparently several others have found reasons why they may want to consider giving us some control over this aside from tricking the slicer. 

Posted : 02/01/2022 8:05 pm
2ndGen
(@2ndgen)
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Would you be able to detail exactly how you achieved this? I for the life of me can not figure out you did this. I have large text badges I am trying to achieve a smooth top surface on and can not figure it out with V2.6.1

This post was modified 6 months ago by 2ndGen
Posted : 16/09/2023 9:53 pm
Printer Jon
(@printer-jon)
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RE: Bottom layers of text

After reading through this post, I started digging around in the settings some more and after a little experimentation I discovered that by setting my top solid layers to zero and setting my bottom solid layers to 7 (which is the total number of layers my signs have) it gets rid of that weirdness and prints a good solid top layer with my text right on top of it. I am using PS 2.4 but I would imagine it should be similar in 2.6. I made the changes to Patrick's coaster file and it shows a clean top layer as well.

Posted : 02/10/2023 9:12 pm
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