Wedding Cake Topper & How To Make Your Own ("The Yarbers")

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This is a simple wedding cake topper I made (I'm getting married in 48 days!). Most likely, your last name is not Yarber, but maybe this could give you a good idea of how to make one yourself. I will explain briefly how I made this one below if you want to make your own. First of all, I want to credit the font I used: "Romantica" by Dav Studio. It was free for personal use, and I found it on FontSpace.com. Great website if you want to find a font for something like this. I installed the font to my computer, opened Fusion 360, and added a text box to a sketch. I realized I needed to thicken it up a bit or it would be too flimsy and fragile. I extruded the text from the sketch, then I made a new sketch, projected the letter geometry onto that new sketch. This was the best way I knew to do it since you are unable to add offset to text geometries in sketches. From there, I was able to use the "offset" function on the sketch to thicken the letters up a bit. Next, I had to connect "The" and "Yarbers". The "h" and "e" in "The" were also not connected, so I needed to connect those as well. I first connected the "T", "h", and "e" together by moving the "h" up to connect it to the "T", then drawing two "control point spline" lines to make it blend in with the rest of the cursive writing. I then tried a few different positionins of "The" relative to the "Y" and settled on the one you see here. To print this, you just need to make sure you have a good first layer. For this print, it is tricky. You might need to slow your first few layers down a little more for this print, and make sure you do not have a "Horizontal expansion" value greater than 0 (if you are using Cura). I had set a value to this variable in Cura to keep my prints from having too much horizontal spread on the first layer but needed to turn that off for this print. If you make your own, I'd love to know and see what you did! Comment on here if you do and maybe even share yours as a remix or something. Take care.