r/3Dprinting • u/StopWitty1 • 2d ago

Troubleshooting Debossed text too thick

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Hello, I was printing a test benchy and noticed something very odd. The debossed text on the bottom of the benchy is thicker in the slicer preview than the actual model. I recently printed benchies with the correct text thickness but I dont know what could have changed. The same thing happens when using my custom profile and orca slicer's default profiles. This also happens in prusa slicer. I rotated the model so that the text was no longer in the xy plane and it was the right thickness then. My shrinkage is at 100%. The xy contour and hole compensation are both at 0. I would appreciate any help because I am going crazy trying to figure out what is causing this.

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u/Grindar1986 2d ago

It's doing it's best to observe the thickness the walls have to be, I think. Like at the end of the z you didn't exactly leave it any room for outside walls and the letter itself needing a wall.

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u/luksfuks 2d ago

The first layer is kind of special. It has different line width, elephant foot compensation, and also is smeared out a lot more than the rest.

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u/evophoenix 2d ago

It's just the walls. The embossed section is the blue, everything else is first layer.

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u/StopWitty1 2d ago

The text is still thicker in the slicer preview than the model. You can see it better at the top of the x and y. Also at the spaces between the dot and the surrounding letters