2) Don’t Bevel the textĭo not set a Bevel on the text object. Easily keep track of scale and dimensions. If the guidelines say your text should stick out 0.8mm, then you know you need to extrude by at least 0.8 Blender units. This is really handy if you are working to guidelines dictated by the material you are printing in. Otherwise, any extrusions or other settings will get multiplied up by the scaling factor which makes life unnecessarily difficult. This way, if you add an extrusion to the text, 1 Blender unit = 1mm. Rather than scaling text in the main window, we recommend sizing the text with the size in the properties panel. We recommend using 1x Blender Unit = 1mm when preparing models for 3d print. If you need a 3d model file to follow along with, you can download our photo frame model for free and modify it as much as you like.īe mindful of the scale and units. While 3d modelling from scratch takes time to learn, we show you an easy way to get started with Blender 3d printing text.Īdding text to an existing 3d model is of the easiest ways to make something unique and personal. This project is licensed under the License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.Blender is a very powerful and flexible tool for creating and editing model files for 3d printing. save user settings to keep addon enabled over multiple blender sessions.

select the ZIP you downloaded and click 'Install Add-on from File.'.

go to: File/User Preferences/Add-ons and click 'Install Add-on from File.'.

export selected objects to multiple STL.

added 'Copy to Clipboard' of the Volume and Area in Report's Output.

completely changed 'Clean Up' part to have more influence on the clean up process.I'm still working on the full fix for the issue. 'Make Solid' works so far only if all selected objects are in the same collection. Images below display original '3D Print Toolbox' (image on the left) and current modified version (image on the right):

If you need version for Blender 2.79 or older, check the link: 3d-print-toolbox-modified-blender2.79 More info: Tested on Blender 2.80 Release Candidate 3 (windows64). In this modified version it's possible to have more influence on the clean up settings and it gives more flexibility. It's based on '3D Print Toolbox' by Campbell Barton. Blender addon with utilities for 3d printing.

Blender 3d printing download