I will attempt with my next Form1 if mine also gets approved.
I haven’t attempted this yet but there is also https://www.openpewproject.org/ which has a customizer tab where you can put in all the needed info and upload your can and it will emboss it in a downloadable stl. Seems pretty cool regardless
That’s super cool! Guess I’ll have to make one of those too!
With this info, you don’t even need to buy tags, just put it on the suppressor in a way that you can’t destroy the SN without it also destroying the suppressor.
I’m gonna form1 waaaayyyy more than just 6 cans now.
Hell yes, saving this for later
did a little digging and it seems that its not as easy. It looks like its only for the OP9 silencer and it cost money, around 10 dollars to support the dev of. That’s great, but I would probably open fusion or your cad of choice and engrave it there like you were saying. sorry for the misinfo
For the FTN suppressors I’ve just been putting in my text directly via the Bambu slicer. Works great. Huge shout out to OpenPew. Join the OP9 Matrix and tell him you love him.
Orca let’s you emboss text into parts, just select the type ‘cut’ so instead of protruding the text it makes the cavity of the text, you can select font and size, super convenient and easy, can put the text anywhere you want in the print, I’ve done that in a couple of lowers just to add some flavour to my prints lol
I tried this for a can, a SBR and a AOW. Now it’s hurry up and wait.
Can confirm this method is acceptable. I’ve had 4 approvals listing this method for markings. Follow depth and height requirments.
I’ve had six cans approved that mention embedding the serials into the print. You won’t be able to use small size font though. My first can, I played it safe and set the text to be cut 1mm deep and 9mm tall. It was very legible, but large. I then printed a barrel liner to test various Orca Slicer font sizes. Based upon my experiment, 4mm bold text might still be legible…might. 3mm bold or plain 4mm text had issues that made it a challenge to read some characters. I’m trying 6mm bold on my current print, and if it goes well I may try 5mm bold next. I doubt I’ll try 4mm bold, as the smaller text had issues printing i, l, and 1 when printed along the length of the barrel liner positioned on the print bed as the FTN.5 rimfire cans are positioned. Using bold helps to prevent those letters from just being filled in or mushed between layers. This testing was done with PA612-CF, so PLA+ may work for smaller text on the FTN.5 Rimfire can since it has a smoother print surface than the nylons that look like fuzzy skin PLA.
Edit: Bold 6mm high x 1mm deep looks very clear. I will be trying bold 5mm high next.
