Catan Number Remix

I was having problems having the indented A through R showing up on my printer, so I remixed these in Blender. My printer nozzle is .5 mm - the new letters have a tolerance at least as fine as that. (.5 mm or smaller nozzle = okay).

Things remixed:

Letters are now extruded, not indented (allows better painting)

Re-centered the letters/numbers/pips

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

LulzBot

Printer: 

Mini

Rafts:

No

Supports: 

No

Resolution:

Layer height was .38

Notes:

With a smaller nozzle, you could probably have finer accuracy/smaller letters.

Avoid using a thicker shell than necessary! I was using a 1.5mm shell later on, and my printer had trouble with the numbers. (I'd recommend a shell width equal to your nozzle size.)

How I Designed This

Remix Process in Blender

Step 1: Mesh > Clean up > Limited Dissolve in edit mode.

Step 2: Grabbed the face(s) of the indented letter along the Z-axis

Step 3: [Ugly] Expand the letters to be larger. Manual process, as scaling wasn't awesome for my purposes. (Grab a bunch of faces that would be going in one direction, then x/y to slide along the axis.)

Step 4: In wireframe mode, I'd select the faces of each different element (letter, number, pips) and re-center them.

Cura's layer mode was useful as a baseline, post-Blender, to see if the newly formed letter was going to print.