I got through the set up docs, downloaded the cube and pressed print, and I sort of can’t believe it.
.2 layer, .4 nozzle, default orcaslicer with never dried ambrosia asa.
Serial request coming once I finish building the nevermore micro.
Learning FreeCAD, the 1.0+ is awesome. But I can't figure this out or find an example anywhere, possibly because I don't know what to call what I'm doing.
I have a flight sim home cockpit and am making panels for switch boxes, etc. The approach I've been using is to print the panels face down on a smooth plate with a few layers of white on the text, black elsewhere, and for backlighting, blocks of translucent on top of (under when looking at the face of the finished product) the text. To do this, the file needs to contain multiple objects (bodies, components, etc) that are aligned and can be assigned different filaments in the slicer.
So in fusion what I would do is get the labels sketched up and selected, extrude down into the surrounding body to remove the center of the text from the body, then, with the face of the text selected, extrude back up to flush with the face of the surrounding body, selecting "as new component" instead of the default join action. That made a separate component containing only the text that would export as a separate but aligned object.
Is there an easy approach for that sort of thing in FreeCAD? All I've managed to figure out so far is to extrude the text back up to the face and have it join, which just fills in the gaps.
Thanks!
EDIT: Thank you to all of you who have helped out here. In my case, I'm all good with the process once it gets exported from CAD, as long as there are multiple objects. No concerns with how to handle it in the slicer. My challenge is entirely in the FreeCAD workflow for creating the two objects vs the fusion workflow I'm used to. Sounds like the answer is clone, fill in the text in one object, then some kind of boolean to remove all matching body, leaving just the text body and the original body in my screenshot. I haven't been able to figure this out but don't need to keep taking people's time with basic stuff like that, I'm just going through videos and such to work through it.
PSA for anyone who finds this who does need the big picture and whole process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIdHBMIfGhQ&t=309s is the video I originally used to do this. I've since printed probably 50 of these panels given prototypes and mistakes, and they come out looking awesome from a smooth or matte plate.
