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Posted (edited) · Cura is filling up the Hole in the letter "a" and I have no clue how to correct it. Please advise.

Your model is messed up. There are no inside faces in the "a"s. 

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Normally not having inside faces means it's part of an enclosed volume which doesn't need them, because you don't see them through the top and bottom. Cura closes them up because it tries to print watertight volumes.

 

You say you used an STL converter online - what did you convert it from?

Edited by Slashee_the_Cow
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    Posted (edited) · Cura is filling up the Hole in the letter "a" and I have no clue how to correct it. Please advise.

    Also, from a design perspective: lightweight script fonts are among the worst things possible to try and print. Especially the fancier sections:

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    A lot of that is one wall thick. We're talking 0.4mm thick and 14.4mm high (or 3.5mm very much not high, if that's why you sunk most of it under the base) here. I'd be surprised if you could get it all off the build plate in one piece. And you can see with all the Z seams (the white bits in the walls) there are going to be a lot of retractions, which is bad for the filament (because it'll be ground back and forth through the extruder a lot, it's why Cura has a setting for maximum extractions per length of filament), bad for structural integrity (it's not very strong where it just stops, lifts and goes somewhere else), can lead to stringing (especially on parts this thin, if there's filament left in the nozzle chamber when it retracts to travel it'll usually string out along the travel move) and can look messy, because there's often a small blob of filament left at a Z seam.

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    fixed typo
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    Posted (edited) · Cura is filling up the Hole in the letter "a" and I have no clue how to correct it. Please advise.

    Okay, just because I like to help people... here's a fixed version of the model. There were also a few other small holes and I fixed the surface normals on top (so now it will actually iron, since you have that turned on.

     

    Edit: also the graphics designer in me wants to tell you that you should increase the tracking in the "athew" so that it's not so far from the "'s", plus it looks a bit bunched together as it is.

    CE3MAX_A_Concern_Edit.stl

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