Text to Snowflake Generator
Text to Snowflake Generator
3D
Published 2017-12-13T17:22:11+00:00
Enter some text, get your personal snowflake! You have 2 text fields the main one and the additional rotated 30 degrees relative to each other. The text you enter is mirrored vertically and rotated 6 times around its first letter. You can change the offset of the mirrored parts so that they are closer or further from each other. If you're looking for some good fonts visit http://fonts.google.com.
The idea behind this is pretty simpe. I was looking for ways to generate a snowflake and stumbled upon this website: https://thebookofeveryone.com/specials/make-your-snowflake. It generates a snowflake from any text you enter but for me it was not customizeable enough. You can't get a hi-res picture of it either, so I decided to make a script that does pretty much the same thing.
The script is pretty basic. It actually is my first time making something in OpenSCAD.
You can use the script itself or use the Customizer on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2702278.
Examples from photos
"Snow"flake
Main text = " Snow" (no quotation marks)
Main text size: 15
Main text vertical offset: -3
Main font: Great Vibes
Main text style: Normal
Additional text :" /\\" (no quotation marks)
Additional text size: 10
Additional text vertical offset: -1
Additional font: Great Vibes
Additional text style: Normal
Number of branches: 6
Height: 1
"H"-flake
Main text = "H" (no quotation marks)
Main text size: 10
Main text vertical offset: 0
Main font: Great Vibes
Main text style: Normal
Additional text : empty
Additional text size: 10
Additional text vertical offset: -1
Additional font: Great Vibes
Additional text style: Normal
Number of branches: 6
Height: 1
Make sure to enable single extrusion walls in your slicer settings.
For the text size of 10-15 I find it better to scale up the model to around 150% when using some thin handwriting fonts like Great Vibes.
| Date published | 13/12/2017 |
| Benoetigte Zeit | 10 - 60 Minuten |
| Menge an Filament | 2 grams |
| Support Free | YES |