Fusion 360 help please.

[ajlelectronics]

 

[My Old Landy]

The bottom one looks good to me

 

[ajlelectronics]

 

[Hood]

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This for me out of the three last posted.

 

[Hood]

I did think green and yellow spaced between switches but paintshop doesn't look that great but may be better if done properly.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I did think green and yellow spaced between switches but paintshop doesn't look that great but may be better if done properly.

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Thank you. I will look at that in my next session. The good thing about building it virtually is that details like this can be decided before actually building the thing. Here is my 1990s version, all done from a plan in my head and nothing on paper :

 

[ajlelectronics]

A mock up of it in the flesh. The panel was supposed to be wood effect PLA but I have seen better. I think it will be a blue one again.

 

[My Old Landy]

A mock up of it in the flesh. The panel was supposed to be wood effect PLA but I have seen better. I think it will be a blue one again.

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How are you going to label it? Are you going to use embedded text?

 

[ajlelectronics]

How are you going to label it? Are you going to use embedded text?

Not yet decided. Embossed text may not be very sharp being face down, but I will try it.

 

[My Old Landy]

Not yet decided. Embossed text may not be very sharp being face down, but I will try it.

I have had some success but the font and size has to be chosen with care. I use the slicer to add it so it is flush with the surface (it helps with an AMS system, I don't know if you have one).

 

[My Old Landy]

This is the sort of thing I do for labelling.

 

[ajlelectronics]

This is the sort of thing I do for labelling.
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With a mono printer, I would have to emboss and fill the text with paint or something.

 

[My Old Landy]

With a mono printer, I would have to emboss and fill the text with paint or something.

Yes that would be a problem. You could print the letters separately and put them in but there are more elegant solutions.
I could laser some brass for you?

 

[Hood]

Could the plastic be lasered? I do it on Acetal, see below, but not sure if 3d printed plastic could be done.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Yes that would be a problem. You could print the letters separately and put them in but there are more elegant solutions.
I could laser some brass for you?

An interesting thought, but I need to progress the design a bit more first. I will bear it in mind, thanks.

 

[Dr.Al]

With a mono printer, I would have to emboss and fill the text with paint or something.

I quite often do coloured text with my mono printer, e.g. the labels you can see if you zoom in on this image:

They're done by inserting a change filament command after the penultimate layer. That stops the printer & lets you unload the filament & load a new colour for the final layer.

In Prusaslicer, you just press the + icon by the last layer & it sorts the rest out, but alternatively you could manually insert a colour change GCODE command (or just a pause if that's all your printer supports - then you could manually change filament during the pause).

 

[Dr.Al]

I quite often do coloured text with my mono printer, e.g. the labels you can see if you zoom in on this image:

They're done by inserting a change filament command after the penultimate layer. That stops the printer & lets you unload the filament & load a new colour for the final layer.

In Prusaslicer, you just press the + icon by the last layer & it sorts the rest out, but alternatively you could manually insert a colour change GCODE command (or just a pause if that's all your printer supports - then you could manually change filament during the pause).

Other examples (some embossed, some debossed), all done on a single extruder printer:

 

[ajlelectronics]

I quite often do coloured text with my mono printer, e.g. the labels you can see if you zoom in on this image:

They're done by inserting a change filament command after the penultimate layer. That stops the printer & lets you unload the filament & load a new colour for the final layer.

In Prusaslicer, you just press the + icon by the last layer & it sorts the rest out, but alternatively you could manually insert a colour change GCODE command (or just a pause if that's all your printer supports - then you could manually change filament during the pause).

I have done similar, but this has to be (sensibly) printed face down.

 

[Erie Fred]

I have done similar, but this has to be (sensibly) printed face down.

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Can't you print the part first (face down as needed)
and then flip it over, load different color and print the label as needed on the top surface ?

 

[Dr.Al]

I have done similar, but this has to be (sensibly) printed face down.

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Would it be the end of the world if there was a narrow (or thick if you prefer) band of colour on the very rim. If you look closely at this image, you'll see what I mean I think. This one was printed face down (the first layer or two were blue, then a couple of layers of black, then the rest blue again):

In fact most things I print with text are printed text-side down. These two were as well:

The latter one just had the first layer (or two, I can't remember) in white and the rest in black.