Simple FreeCAD Text Example: How to cut 3D Text in a design. This is my post aide-memoire that describes how to add text as a cut through to a 3D design. I promptly forgot everything I’d learned. After getting my knees metaphorically skinned going up the learning curve I then put the project down for a couple of weeks.

I wanted to embed text into a 3-D design. Here’s how I fixed it.įreeCAD Snap Package Font Problems: Fix How to Add Printable Text to a 3D Design in FreeCAD But there was a problem with accessing the system fonts for the ShapeString tool. (Ubuntu 18.04 & apt-get installed pkg)įreeCAD Font Path Set Up for Text String ShapesĪfter upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 I moved over to using the FreeCAD snap package rather than the traditionally installed FreeCAD package. Here’s what it is and how to get round it. I encountered a trivially simple but annoying issue when setting up the font path for text strings on FreeCAD for the first time. Printing on Creality Ender 3 with Pronterface USB connection.Ī Gotcha with font setting for ShapeStrings in FreeCAD Also(!) an fix for an extra font problem when using a FreeCAD Snap package.Using Prusa Slicer to produce Gcode for a Creality Ender 3.How to Turn a Simple Freecad Sketch into 3D Object.A Simple worked example with Freecad, Slic3r and Pronterface.

So I built a set of posts that followed the development of an ultra simple project from beginning to end. Here’s how I fixed it.Ĭonnecting Pronterface to Ender 3 3D printer with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ultra Simple 3D Design from Start to Print There was a simple problem I needed to overcome to use the USB connection. But I wanted to do some 3D printing directly from my laptop running Ubuntu. In fact in many ways that is the best solution. You can just drive the Ender 3 using an SD-Card. But if you find them useful that’s great. They are here mainly as an aid-memoir for me. Here are a set of posts on using Freecad, Prusa Slicer and other tools to produce my own designs. I am lucky enough to have one (though mine’s a little old – here’s the 32 bit uprated latest version on Amazon). The Creality Ender 3 is arguably the best budget printer for 3D printing on the market.

Using freecad for 3d printing