Numbers, letters and short lines of text as printable plates, blocks or markers – for compartments, player positions, throwing games, shelves and anything else that needs to be told apart.
Two typefaces built entirely from rectangles, raised or recessed. No font file, no boolean operations, and therefore no geometry that breaks in the slicer.
| Dot type | A 5×7 grid of dots. Letters, digits and a few symbols – 44 characters in all. Every dot is a rectangle in the height field, so the geometry stays closed by construction. |
| Segment type | Coarser, with fewer triangles and larger faces. Digits, minus and space only. Better when the plate is small or the material is dark. |
There is no font file behind this and there is no boolean operation. That is deliberate: a font outline needs a subtraction to become a plate, and a subtraction is where printable geometry usually breaks. Rectangles in a height field cannot break.
Raised lettering is readable without paint and survives handling – use it for anything that will be touched. Recessed lettering is made to be filled: brush acrylic across it, wipe the surface, and the paint stays in the channels. Recessed on a plate thinner than about 2 mm is a bad idea; the floor under the letters gets too thin.
Four presets: 0 to 9, 1 to 12 for throwing blocks, 1 to 20, and 1 to 8 for compartments or player numbers. The set button downloads each number as its own file, because the plates differ in width – a single shared size would be a lie, and you would find out at the moment they have to sit next to each other.
Print flat, no supports. Stroke width about one fifth of the digit height: thinner becomes unreadable on small plates, thicker runs together. For outdoor markers use ASA – a PLA number plate in a garden lasts one summer.
This page carries the essentials. The detailed sheet is in German: documentation. Every control here is a number, a slider or a choice, and the German page uses the same order.