From Image to 3D Print: Adding Logos Using Your Slicer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- I wanted to do a quick walkthrough for "AJ", who asked about making a custom 3D Printed Box with a Logo on it. This is a really simple process for my logo, however, it can take a few minutes for more complex logos to paint the different colors.
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Thank you for doing this. I didn't expect this type of response. I figured out a similar process that came out okay, but definitely learned a lot here and will be reprinting to make mine better. Thank you again.
Very informative and straight to the point, love the video!
Merry Christmas man. Thanks for your videos. You have become my go to for information, education, and improvement in my own small print shop. Between you and shop nation, I’ve reached 40 sales, and star seller status.
Thanks! Glad my videos are helping you out, keep up the great work!
I love Travis’s videos at Shop Nation! He’s also got another channel, Print Farm Academy that has some useful information on it as well!
@ I love that one as well. His channel has inspired more shop ideas, and your channel has inspired new marketing techniques and ideas on Etsy. You’ve got me interested and researching selling on amazon as well. I’m working on building more selection in my shop. One question, do you think having your TH-cam has improved your overall sales, and brand recognition?
I think having TH-cam has definitely driven traffic to my shop, but i don’t think it’s for sales as much as it is research for other people to see what I’m selling and have listed.
@ that makes sense. I’ll admit, I have looked your shop up on Etsy to see how your descriptions read on a couple of listings. Seems like mine are at least on par with other creators as well as yourself. I’ve kind of landed on the fidget niche. Not what my initial intention was, but hey, if that funds where I want to go then I’ll get really good at what brings business. I really appreciate your responses, and your content. It’s good to be able to bounce ideas off of someone I view as having a similar approach to the industry.
Perfect timing! Couldn't figure out how to bind to another object, this really helps. Merry XMAS
Glad you found it helpful and Merry Christmas!
I'm so used to you uploading almost daily, I watch these in the background while doing other things
I appreciate it, I'm aiming for every 2-3 Days right now!
Another thing I learned that came in handy when adding texts and logos is if there is some odd gaps on the model right clicking and hitting "fix model usually resolves those problems
The 'Purging Trick', wish I'd known about that last week! I used the slicer 'text' with fonts but found Orca has better control over the effects. On the Bambu Lab Plate, I used tree support then spent an hour trying to get the support off the plate without destroying the plate, Bambu PETG HF @70/250
PETG is definitely more difficult to remove from the build plate than PLA is. I’ve ruined a number of build plates across a couple different machines from PETG getting stuck to it. One thing i found that helps with PETG removal is a glue stick. I’m not a fan of using glue in most cases, but for getting PETG to come off, it works wonders. That obviously doesn’t help after the fact but just something to keep in mind for next time to try out.
Just what I was looking for, got my son a A1 for Christmas and we are learning how to use together lol
New sub and going to be looking more into your videos 👍
Welcome to the channel! Hope you enjoy it!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for your videos!
Thank you, Same to you!
You could also cut that purge in half again by making the logo only 0.6 to 0.8 mm tall. I learned a lot. thank you.
Nice job, some useful info in here.
Merry Christmas to you as well! 🍻
Thank you, Merry Christmas to you too!
Really nice hack. Way faster than doing it in actual CAD. Thanks for sharing 🎉
You bet!
Amazing video, helped me a lot as a newbie in this world. Keep up the good work. :D
Glad I could help!
❤ Well done!
I do this workflow constantly and there isn’t much of anything else I would add 👍.
Video 💡 idea: How do I get the filament profiles on my Bambu slicer to populate on the machine to select for the A1/mini AMS when loading filament. I have updated slicers, firmware… and now some of the previous options that came with the machine are gone 😢. I am missing something obviously but don’t have time to dive through enough form posts to figure it out.
Nice one, I will have to have a play with a few more settings in Orca
I don't know how many color layers you did but I've found with lighter graphics on a dark surround you need at least 3 or 4 due to the translucency of the PLA and maybe more. That could vary with different brands.
Would love to see how you design hinges if you get a chance!
Merry Christmas. Video came in perfect time. I just got an anycubic kobra 3 combo and I was looking for an idea to try a multicolor print that would be somewhat useful. You got the gears turning.
I’m glad you’re enjoying the video, hopefully this gets you started on some multi-color prints!
Great video!! Well dont. Thank you for sharing.
Love the A1 series printers! Wish I had one back when I got into 3d printing. would have saved a LOT of hair being pulled out. HA HA
You bet! They’re amazing, I just added a 4th A1 Mini to the Farm!
Great now I need to get/learn Orca! 😂 I still haven't figured out Bambu Studio after buying the A1 week ago.
Bambu Studio and Orca are essentially the same program, but orca has a few more features for calibration and what not, but if you have and are learning Bambu Studio, its the same software with a different skin
thank you for this, thought you could only do this in a cad software.
Great video , thank you for sharing :)
I'm glad you found it helpful!
Learned alot ty
I am just considering getting into 3D printing as a hobby, I've never used a 3D printer before.
I have no idea how people learn to use the software involved!!!
The number of settings looks completely overwhelming.
Where do you even start?
Not able to do the assemble step in Bambu studio. I only have the merge option which makes it all one color. Any ideas how to fix this?
Same here. Hope someone chimes in.
You can get a latest version of Bambi studio and use the assembly tool in the top menu. Hold ctrl+click on each part to assemble. Esc to redo. Merge actually more accurately describes the action of combining multiple objects into a single printable unit. Merge or assemble the svg into your 1st layer(working on the build plate upside down). Flip the logo so it’s in the right direction since it’s upside down. Then use the paint tool to paint the logo object (select it from the left menu in objects). I do what he says also only print one wall on first later (option).
New sub, great video!
Thanks for the sub!
I'm still having issues not sure what I am missing. Imported my SVG logo fine, sized it, flipped it over then added box. If I slice now it complains but I can see the logo on the box in slice view. So if I got back to model and select logo and box under objects and assemble them as you did then slice it and I get no errors. However in the preview slice I can no longer see the logo and the slicer shows it will only use 1 filament color and not two as expected. Any ideas? Also I tried in Bambu slicer and Orca with same results. Thanks
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What type of filament do you suggest for things like the box that have hinges or joints?
I am trying to do this but after assembling the two objects, the intersetions between them persist. what i am doing wrong?
Interesting I thought the super tac would use the texture plate settings since it has a different z offset than the smooth setting
It may, i just ended up using that profile for the first test print, and it worked so I’ve used it on every print since. I am going to try this same print in Bambu with the super tack profile just to see if i get a little more squish on the first layer
How was he able to print the black top lid of the box 1 layer off the printer bed due to the logo being a layer thicktouching the build plate without support?
They’re both on the same plane. Even if i move the box up half a layer height (+0.10mm), it will still end up on the same layer as the logo because of the layer height I’m printing at
Would this only work to add logos if its on the bottom surface? Or can i do this to add it to the side of a container?
You could technically put it on the side, but it would take many filament changes to print the same thing. It would work best on the side if you bring it out slightly from the surface of the container. You will have to manually rotate the logo to be facing in the correct orientation and utilize the move tools inside of Orca to scale it and drag it around until it is where you want it. Assembling and slicing the file should work the same way after the logo is in place.
@TheMountainMaker awesome thanks.
I love using Orca, do you know if it's going to continue to work after this infamous Bamboo firmware updates? I have 5 prints, adding my first Bamboo to my mini farm and am a bit worried I will be bumped out of the Orca option.
So far from my tests using Bambu connect, its a smooth piece of software, albeit, another piece of software. Its easy enough to save the gcode file and open it in bambu connect. Hopefully Orca will release an update for the "Print" button soon, that should allow them to send the file from Orca, to Bambu connect and from there you can just choose your machine and hit print. That said, Bambu Studio is basically the same thing as orca with a few missing features.
@@TheMountainMaker Thanks for the quick reply..
I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong I keep saving the file as a png then converting it to an svg but when I hit add in Bambu Studio the only that pops up is a gray block where my logo should be. Am I doing something wrong?
Downloaded Orca to try the same steps and it turned out the exact same
I have a question: is it possible to put the logo on top of something but the surface should be even (same as it is as on the bottom of the box)? Thanks and best regards. And the surface on my L shaped Object on top is convex so it is a bit hard to get a smooth surface after putting the logo on top..
You can do that in the same way i did this one, except you’ll need to move the logo higher on the z-axis and play around with it until it is level with the top of the box. It won’t come out looking as clean unless you are using a smaller nozzle, and even then, it won’t be quick as smooth. As for the convex surface, you’ll have to play around with nodes and a modeling software to bend it over the different surfaces. I believe fusion has a quick way of projecting onto a surface and shapr3d does as well but nothing inside of the slicer as far as i know of
I'm having an issue when assembling the items. It is still all glitchy and does not work out like shown in the video. Any suggestions?
Make sure you hit slice and are Inside the preview tab, not the prepare tab as it will still look glitched out on the prepare tab, but look fine once it has been sliced and ready to send to the printer. If that isn't the case, you can always try lowering your logo slightly below the surface of the box by .05mm or .1mm. In theory it would be protruding out from the bottom, but in reality, that small of a movement will just combine the layers into one, but still give you the image you are going for.
Curious why it was 14 changes. Does the logo go deeper than a single layer, looking at the colors shouldn't it be only 6-8 changes?
It does, if i had lowered the height down to .8 or 1 mm, it would’ve done less changes
Why so many filament changes. You really only need one (max 2) layers for the colors. Good video overall mate
Just due to the thickness of the model. If i had made it .6 or .8mm, it would’ve only been 2 or 3 filament changes
And thank you!
I find 0.4mm is usually enough for the logos unless you have white logo on black, then I do 0.6mm. Cheers bud!
Make me things 🎉🎉🎉 do it now
moving way too fast for a beginner to follow
For these tutorials, I just hit pause or replay it A LOT. Standard practice for me.
OR you could add it to saved videos and watch it over and over again.