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Make wedding invitations and cards with lace printed onto tulle, organza or chiffon. The print pauses part-way, you lay the fabric over it, and the rest prints on top, trapping the fabric: the plastic squeezes through the weave and welds to the layers below.
Choose a card size and border, a generated lace pattern, lettering such as names and a date, or your own artwork, in any combination. It makes the STL and the G-code with the pause already inserted, at the layer you need. Everything is generated in your browser.
Print a few layers, pause, lay tulle or organza flat over the print, and let it carry on. The layers above the pause push through the fabric and weld to the layers below, holding it in place.
Open, sheer fabrics such as tulle, organza and chiffon, so the plastic can pass through the weave.
Download the G-code with the pause already in it. M0 suits most Marlin printers; Prusa and Klipper printers park and return by themselves.
Lines thinner than about two extrusion widths (0.8 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle) are dropped by the slicer. The preview marks them in red.