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3D text generator: name plates and letters as STL
Type your text, choose a font and a style, and get an STL ready to print: a sign for a door, a name plate, a house number, letters for a model railway station, or a stencil. Sixteen free fonts, one or more lines.
How to use it
- Type your text. Press Enter for a second line.
- Choose a font and the height of a capital letter.
- Under Shape, choose raised letters (on their own or on a plate), engraved letters, or letters cut right through the plate as a stencil.
- Drag in the 3D view to look round it. Under the settings you see how big it comes out.
- Press Download STL. It lies flat, letters up, ready for your slicer.
Ideas
- Door and house signs: a name or a number on a plate, in two colours of filament (swap the filament at the height where the letters start).
- Name tags and key rings: small letters on a thin plate. Make a hole in the editor afterwards.
- Model railways and dioramas: station name boards and shop signs, at the size of your scale.
- Stencils for spray paint: the letters cut through the plate. Stencil fonts keep the middles of letters like O and A attached.
- Gifts: a word, a date or a short quote on a stand.
Printing letters that look good
- Make capitals at least 5 mm high on an FDM printer with a 0.4 mm nozzle; thinner fonts need more.
- Raised letters of 1 to 2 mm on a plate of 2 to 3 mm print fast and read well.
- For two colours without a multi-colour printer, pause the print at the top of the plate and change the filament.
- Bold fonts (Barlow Bold, Oswald Bold, Bebas Neue) print cleaner at small sizes than thin or script fonts.
Questions
- Is the 3D text generator free?
- Yes. Try every font and style without an account. To download the STL you get a link by mail, which makes your free WAZO3D account at the same time; members download straight away.
- Which fonts can I use?
- Sixteen free fonts: sans serif, slab serif, monospace, stencil, handwriting, condensed, rounded, script, Gothic, typewriter and art deco. In the WAZO3D editor you can also load a font of your own.
- Can I make more than one line?
- Yes. Press Enter in the text field; the lines can be aligned left, centred or right, and the line spacing is a setting.
- What size does it come out?
- You set the height of a capital letter in millimetres. The width follows from the text and the font; it is shown under the settings.
- Can I change the model afterwards?
- Open it in the WAZO3D editor: add a hole for a screw or a key ring, put it on a stand, or combine it with other parts.
Do more with it in WAZO3D
Add holes for screws, a stand or a frame, combine the letters with your own model, check it for printing and export it all at once. WAZO3D is powerful 3D modelling without the complexity, in your browser.