Letter Cutter

My freind who runs a creative cake business wanted to make some fancy letters for her decorations but could only buy simple ones. This is what I made for her, you might like them too.

I have used a slicer cheat to not print the inside of the letter, you need to turn off infill and set top and bottom solid layers to 0. I tend to use 2 perimeters for strength and better tolernce of extruder sliping.

I have only done STLs for S and & (business name is S&S) so you will need to enter into the wonderful world of openSCAD to do your own, you can also use Web fonts to get hearts and flowers.

The grid backing is; firstly to hold the inside bits of any letters in the right place but also to have something to grab hold of. It has holes so you can poke a stick through to release the letter if necessary.

If you want to print a word then you may want to use the fontmetrics funtions ablely created by the talented Mr Pruss https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3004457. If you don't (maybe the font you want is not supported) then you can use the alternatice values for height, h, and width, w currently commented out.

I have included some functions for sizing walls to be an integer number of threads thick which I find gives a better print quality.

There are settings for:-

word="S"; //thing you want to cut out font="Courier New:style=Bold Italic"; //the font you want to use size=18; //size of the font base=5; // number of layers in baseplate wall=threads(2); //must be set to less than number of perimeters in slicer n=4; // the number holes in the grid height=10; // the height of the letters

Category: Kitchen & Dining