Text Size Guide/Tester by Pulsar Designs

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill

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52 min

1 plate

4.9(15)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill, color

56 min

1 plate

4.9(8)

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Description

Figuring out the right text size to use in your design can be difficult, especially considering your printer has physical limitations, too.

Print this text size guide to test your printer's print quality for a variety of font sizes, embossed and recessed, and to have a handy physical guide on hand the next time you include text in your designs!

Gladly upload a picture of your results. I'd be curious to see how a 0.2mm or a 0.6mm nozzle performs, since I only had a 0.4mm nozzle to try it with.

Notes:

For text to print cleanly, I highly recommend the Arachne wall generator as opposed to the classic wall generator.
If you want to try this test with other fonts, I included the .f3d file under ‘raw model files’ so you can modify it to your liking!

Enjoy!

Comment & Rating (26)

@mooylee1

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill

Printed upside down to see how the text would appear on bottom pieces

The designer has replied

@pulsardesigns

Great idea! The embossed text turned out really clean. May I ask what nozzle size you‘re running?

@mooylee1

Replying to @pulsardesigns :

Just used the standard 0.4mm nozzle

(Edited)

@clausartz

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill, color

kleiner handlicher Helfer, muss ich mir mit anderen Schriftarten ebenfalls noch drucken

@Andy53

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill, color

Done with 0.2mm tip to see the differences. Quite impressed to be honest.

@SteveKos

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill, color

Quick and easy way to test how test is going to look. Thanks for sharing!

@dicosmo.frances

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill

Blue Prusament on top of White PLA Silk with 0.4 nozzle. I will not go lower 5.0 mm for both embossed and recessed. Even at 5.0 mm embossed the "m"s have some defect. Nice test. I will try again with 0.2 nozzle.

@vhold1

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill

Nicely laid out.

@mmoncur

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0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 20% infill

Excellent test, helped make some font decisions.

@ThaMadGreek

Had to open this to see the text as I was actually reading it incorrect. Let's just say that the r and I connected on the smaller image for the blue side. This is a great tool though and I will print it for my woman to use at her school to have her students use when doing prints.