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Connecting letters as one piece?

Posted by sungod3k

sungod3k

Connecting letters as one piece?
September 21, 2015 10:06PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 805

Hey,

Does someone know an openscad script or similar method that can connect text or letters to make them printable as one piece?

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the_digital_dentist

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 21, 2015 10:19PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 5,789

You can do that in Sketchup pretty easily.

Ultra MegaMax Dominator 3D printer: [drmrehorst.blogspot.com]

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sungod3k

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 21, 2015 10:23PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 805

How is that function called there?

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the_digital_dentist

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 21, 2015 10:26PM

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It isn't a specific function. Draw the 3D text and add a bar(s) to connect the letters together or draw the text on top of a block.

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sungod3k

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 21, 2015 11:17PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 805

Ah I see, that I can do as well, but that requires manual input. I thought more one something that recognizes the horizontal outer dimensions of the letter and puts connectors on it.

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J-Max

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 22, 2015 03:21AM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 722

Hi,

Sometimes what you expect just do not exist.
Probably the manual input is so easy that
there's no reason to program it.

IMHO, each word have its own shape.
Maybe it will be smarter to add a bar,
as the_digital_dentist suggested,
adjusted to fit visualy to the word itself.

++JM

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sungod3k

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 22, 2015 04:11AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 805

Yeah thats true, but I recently printed a job where I had symbols and words and they were supposed to stay together in formation and doing that manually (even with netfabb) was a nightmare effort and timewise.

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Shank man

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 22, 2015 10:11AM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 204

I use Blender for making name plates. As long as you don't mind the cursive type script.

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madmike8

Re: Connecting letters as one piece?
September 22, 2015 11:14AM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 814

OpenSCAD example

Name-Plate.png

union() {
    // 3d Lettering Background Bars
   
 translate([14, 3, 0]) cube([2, 40, 2]);
 translate([27, 3, 0]) cube([2, 40, 2]);       
 translate([14, 23, 0]) cube([13, 2, 2]);   
    
    // Text to Extrude
    rotate([0,0,90])translate([1,-20,0])color("black")linear_extrude(height=5)
    text("Think It", size = 10, h=10, font = "Liberation Sans");
    rotate([0,0,90])translate([1,-32,0])color("black")linear_extrude(height=5)
    text("Print It", size = 10, h=10, font = "Liberation Sans");
 }