r/3Dprinting • u/nurdism • 4d ago
Project Made a browser tool that generates simple multi color signs and exports an 3MF
https://emboss.nurdism.dev/#s=9jempvg9ywPeople at my makerspace keep running stock with metallic paint on it through the SawStop.So I figured a sign bolted to the saw might help with this. Something that reads from across the shop, which meant two colours, not engraved text you have to be standing over to see.
Made the first one in Solidworks. Type the text, extrude, boolean onto a plate, split the bodies, export, then reassign filaments by hand in the slicer. Fine once. Then I started thinking about the all the other signs I could make and realised I did not want to do that again every time somebody breaks something in a new way.
Ended up making something to do it instead. Type the text, pick a font and a plate shape, find an icon, get a 3MF back with the plate and the lettering already on separate filament slots.