Smallest Text using .2mm nozzle.

Greetings, everyone. In 90% of my videos, I have been using the stock 0.4mm nozzle. However, even with adjustments, there are limits to the level of detail I can achieve with a model. Today, I am evaluating the 0.2mm nozzle to determine how small I can make text. By combining the nozzle with the line width, I can extrude a minute amount of filament to produce legible text.

[@SrinathAvadhanula]

Fun video! but the sentence is "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". with "jumped", there is no "s" ☺️

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

I will pin your comment so my shame will be immortalized🤣😂

[@SrinathAvadhanula]

Thanks! my 9 year old who noticed it is super happy. 😁

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

@@SrinathAvadhanula That is awesome. Very keen eye I love it when we can share our hobbies, passions and interests with the next generation. Be proud. You have put a huge smile on the face of this youtuber. 😁

[@nevadamarschke8052]

I used to test keyboards with this exact line until a customer said thier 's' key wasn't working 😅

[@erickcarlos4298]

Fantastic work, your help was essential in elevating my project.

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Thank you😊

[@glennfelpel9785]

Thank you I appreciate the effort you went to showing how the .2 nozzle can produce so much more detail. Very well done video.

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Thank you very much. I hope to show some things that havent been covered in depth by others.

[@Amn2k9]

Nice. First of all I did not know that the objects order was important when working with multiple objects, color etc. And also did not know that you could go that low and high with the extrusion of the 0.2 and 0.4 mm nozzles! Great info. Only been using 3D printer since August last year, and learned a lot since then, but today I gained some great knowledge for this hobby, Thanks. :)

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

It was a nice surprise seeing how far the nozzle can go. As for the print order I constantly mix it up at times. Lol. 3d printing is a great hobby to dabble in and the sky is the limit on what is possible. Thank you for watching and sharing your 3d print journey.

[@Sembazuru]

If you play with the order of objects, you can use a slab object to fill in engraved text from a model that you downloaded. A common model to experiment with this is the good ole Benchie Boat. Load benchie into your slicer. Add a part (PrusaSlicer lingo) to the benchie and scale the part down to larger than the text on the bottom of the benchie, but smaller than the footprint of the benchie. Overlap the scaled part on the bottom of the benchie and assign a different color to the part. Experiment with the order of the benchie and the added part in the object tree to see what gives the result you want. From this video it looks like having the part after the main model in BambuStudio (BS) would give you the letters filled (but I don't use BS), but in PrusaSlicer (as of 2.7.4) you would want the extra part before the main model. I've used this technique on several models that I've downloaded. I only have a single extruder printer without any multi-color accessories (MMU, Palette, AMS, etc), so I use a "Manual MMU" technique and manually change and purge filaments during the first few layers of a print where I'm filling text or a logo on the bottom side of a print with a different (usually contrasting) color.

[@oljobo]

Hi Ashley! The most important setting I know when details are getting small, is making sure I use Arachne slicing. AFAIK, the Arachne engine has the capability to reduce line width automatically when needed. I don't have time to replicate what you did here right now, but try to leave the default line width, make some small text, slice with Classic and Arachne, and take a close look at the line widths in Preview. I noticed you changed LW for initial layer only… That maybe means that layer 2 will be not so precise, and text will not be so clear… (?) (if bleedthrough ) Leaving everything to Arachne slicer may be a good tip. Please try it. I will maybe do bit research tomorrow 🙏😊 Edit: I had to try quickly.. Seemingly I am partly right.. Arachne DOES reduce line width… but seemingly not to the lowest possible value… More research needed 😊

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Hey hey. I tested arachne during the creation of this video but did not want to throw too much at the viewer delving into too many settings so I left the setting out as it made the print slightly worse. I also avoided toying with layer heights as it would create a bunch more variables. The LW were printed with initial and default with the modifications. .22 or .11 Even going down to the lowest line width(.11mm) with the .2mm nozzle manually looked better than using arachne with and without my manual changes. Arachne missed parts of the text. I may throw up a community post showing the differences. When you slice you can toggle the "line width" tab and see the differences as well. What is interesting is that setting .11mm manually actually shows .03mm for first layer. while arachne shows .08mm extrusion. Classic wall generator attempts constant extrusion throughout the model, whereas Arachne is variable and since it is auto generated you are left to what the slicer thinks is best. There could be a bunch of other factors I am not accounting for like elephant foot compensation or other slicer settings too. Excellent post as always. 😁

[@oljobo]

@@ashleys3dprintshopGreat! 👍Thanks 😊

[@motionsick]

Are these printed face down. Would line to see text in different configurations with this nozzle. Like face up, extruded etc.

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

@@motionsick hello yes all of these were printed face down. Face up, ironing is also an option.

[@AndrewAHayes]

I bought a complete hot end with the 0.2mm nozzle and then just bought the 0.6 and 0.8 nozzles, this way I always have a working printer while I am assembling another hot end for the next print that requires it. just Is it possible to change back to the default line width for the remainder of the print once the text has printed, I wouldn't be completely happy just having the initial line width smaller, would I need to manually edit the g-code to achieve my aims?

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Hello. Great minds think alike, I too have the whole set of hotends just incase they are needed. You can certainly adjust the line width beyond just the first few layers. While not shown here...and I havent covered it completely you can use modifiers to create "zones" that have different characteristics than the rest of the model. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWeQopuOZ7hnf7s You can position these modifiers to do many different things but changing line width is one of them. Right click model add modifier( you can chose the shape) position modifier and make the change.

[@Sembazuru]

I don't know how much of the text feature from PrusaSlicer (PS) has made it into BambuStudio (BS), but in PS a faster workflow is to apply the text to an object as a modifier and change the extruder/filament for the modifier. From your screen shots in BS1.8 I didn't see in the text tool any widgets for defining the text as object part, negative volume, or modifier. I wonder if it is there in BS1.9 or hidden somewhere in BS1.8. (FWIW, the text tool in PS does look different than what I see in your video for BS and does support multiple lines of text. I forget which version of PS added multiple lines, but the current PS2.7.4 does have multi-line. Hopefully Bambu will merge all the recent functionality of the PS text tool to BS sooner than later.)

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

Even thought the base code is PA, BS forked many of the features into separate menus or omitted them outright. In order to change part type, blockers, modifiers, negatives it's just a right click, change part. As far as multi line text it is not there. (or at least I have to found it lol) Occasionally I'll use maker world or another program to make longer sentences or paragraphs.

[@Sembazuru]

@@ashleys3dprintshop True, but I guess my point was lost when I started babbling... 🤣 My point was the workflow might be easier instead of applying the text as an extrusion, detaching it, merging the text into a single object, and then adding the text object back, simply apply the text as a modifier that maps to a different color. If that functionality was ported to BS when they forked off of PS (or in a subsequent feature merge).

[@ashleys3dprintshop]

@@Sembazuru You are correct in that PS and OS can create text independent of a model and multiple lines too. Each program is similar but there can be some wildly different results. PS and OS handle SVG files completely different from BS. BS and OS can do mesh boolean where PS doesnt etc. Since I am in BS more i update PS and Orca rarely but a good number of features trickles down from the PS branch to OS and BS. Modifiers can be useful in some areas if you need to make the whole modified part "do a thing" but there are instances where it prevents top layer painting only. It's all situational of course. Excellent post, thank you.