Joseph Joseph Rolling Pin Spacers

This is a remix* from Oblenim (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3897692/) – who’s .dwg file I used to create more sizes. I thought this was a perfect project to have a go at Devon’s (from Make Anything) technique to create first-layer multicolour prints with a single extruder 3D Printer (I followed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2AjyowXX4&t=649s and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7FiT5VqLSg&t=615s).

If you don’t want a multicolour print, make sure to flip the STL to have the text facing up. I printed the discs at .2mm height.

If you do want the text filled in, follow the video’s from Devin (about merging the prints in the slicer etc), and print the text first** (if you can get good adhesion on your bed). I printed the text slowly in two layers of .1 mm (need to adjust the ‘initial layer’ height), and all the other bits in .2mm (normal settings). With ‘z-hop’ on they shouldn’t bump into each other. Printed nicely overall.

Ps. I only had black and white on me at the moment of need … Otherwise, a bright colour would have suited nicely 🙂

*Oblenim’s license doesn’t allow remixes – but the description and added source file highly suggest we do, so here it is.

**I tested slicing the object in 3, printing base layer first, then fill the text, then the rest of the disc (as Devon suggested to print smaller bits in the first layers later), but this smudged the text a bit – see the left of the two ‘6mm’ discs. And – I found that I could print the black colour all in one go perfectly fine with the settings above.