Pluggable tea light candle, customizable text

prusaprinters

<p>I was looking for a tea light that could be sent in an envelope as a kind of Christmas greeting card. There are a lot of tea lights here, but I haven't found one that folds or is pluggable. So I thought about how it could work, that the parts could be sent inexpensively in a bubble envelope.</p><p>And here comes my tea light. It is designed for printing with two colours with a dual extruder or multi-material, but can also be printed with one colour and the text as a hole. By the way, it seems that the file doesn't work properly in Customizer. I recommend to download the file and edit it locally.<br>For multi material, you have to do two exports, one with "what_to_print" set to "text", and one with "what_to_print" set to "rest". If you print only with one color, set the "fontthickness" higher as the "windowthickness" and export only the "rest".</p><p>Hint: You can print this also with two colors, even if you have only a single extruder.</p><ul><li>export both files, text and rest, as you would do for multi material print</li><li>start with the text file. Load it into your slicer, but do not move the object on the print plate.</li><li>print the text</li><li>remove all from the print bed but the text (for example skirt and prime)</li><li>change the filament</li><li>now load the rest file into your slicer</li><li>print the rest. For Prusa MK2/3, bed leveling should work also with this first layer printed on the bed, because the distance from nozzle to bed is more than 0.2 mm</li></ul><p>If this works for you, please let others know, and please post picture of your make.<br>The assembly is done by the recipient of the gift, isn't it?</p><p>&nbsp;</p>