I've been playing with the new cad programme Solidcraft (SC from now on). It isn't really fit for use at the moment. I tried my hand at designing a nameplate for 3D printing. The flat plate and the rim are two separate pieces, I couldn't get them to join. Likewise the lettering. I could extrude it down to the plate with a 5deg draft, but only some of the characters would join with the plate. I decided it would be easier to print all the parts separately and glue them together. I got SC to export everything at once expecting the STL file to have multiple bodies. It exported the whole thing as one STL body. Is that normal?
This is a pic of the whole thing. There are 26 bodies not 29 because 3 got deleted.
Selecting the bodies for export.
Imported into Prusa slicer to see if it had any faults, it didn't.
If it's just lettering you need just hide the bits you don't want. I hid the plate and rim.
I will keep checking the daily updated, but at the moment it is very flaky. But if I only use it for nameplates I'll be happy.
Lee
