Quote Bored (Dovetail Tile System)

This is a fully customizable wall-mounted quote board based on the dovetail tiles system. This quote board can be configured into any message, that can fit in 5 rows of 10 characters. This file only includes the English capital alphabet, a space, and half space tiles, but for more compatible characters, you can visit the Dovetail Tile System collection. The different letter tiles give the quote board a scrabble feel, as well as making the quote board completely customizable.

This file is part of the larger Dovetail Tile System collection. For more dovetail tile characters and dovetail tile compatible customizable things, visit the Dovetail Tile System collection.

Printing Instructions

• Material: PLA or PETG (for extra strength)
• Supports: No
• Orientation: 
  • Print the plate on its back
  • Print all the pieces of the frame with the outside face on the build plate
  • Print all the T bolts on their side horizontally
  • Print the characters, character side, on the build plate (for a better surface finish)
  • Print the half tiles face down (for best surface finish)
• Filament changes: No filament changes are required, but a filament change on the text really makes the letters pop out

Required Pieces

• Plate (1x) (this plate can fit 5 rows of 10 characters) (included)
• Frame left (1x) (included)
• Frame right (1x) (included)
• Frame top (1x) (included)
• Frame bottom (1x) (included)
• T bolts (8x) (included)
• Dovetail tiles (50x) (this file includes the entire capital letter alphabet and a space. For more compatible character tiles and customizable things using those tiles, visit the Dovetail Tile System collection) (included)
• Half space dovetail tiles (5x) (there are different length offsets available) (included)

Assembly (the assembly processes also shown in the pictures)

• Printing the pieces
  • Decide on the piece of text you would like to put on your quote board (can be no longer than 50 characters)
  • Ensure that your piece of text can be split up into 5 rows of 10 or fewer characters each
  • Fill out the rest of your board with spaces (for example, if your message was 20 characters long, you would need 30 space tiles in addition to the character tiles and the space tiles in your message)
  • Print out all the required pieces, including your character tiles
• Assembling the frame
  • Take the left frame piece and the bottom frame piece and screw them together with T bolts
  • Take the right frame peace and the top frame piece and screw them together with T bolts
  • Then screw the two sections together with T bolts
• Assembling the plate
  • Slide your character tiles into the plate in order to create your message
  • After you have created your message, fill the rest of the board up with space tiles
  • After every row has 10 tiles in it, add 1 half tile to each row
  • Ensuring that none of the tiles fall out, slide the plate into the frame
  • If the tiles slide around too much in the frame, you may want to consider printing a longer version of the half tile (different lengths of the half tile are available in this download)
• Mounting your quote board
  • This quote board has a large enough lip for most mounting solutions, so simply use your mounting solution of choice, and then hang the quote board from it

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