Hi Ronaldo,
Sort of. While I’m pretty sure there are some redundancies in my code, it’s actually working slightly differently…
Rather than being the minkowski sum of the letters and a cone so that the top surface is the original letter, and letters get wider and with rounded corners, instead I’m using minkowski() to make the equivalent of a tool path to subtract from the letters – the chamfering reduces the top surface and the outer edges of letters are the original font.
Does that make sense? Have a look at the 2 side by side.
Both are potentially useful – I might make an updated 3D text library module that will allow you to select either and emboss or engrave, etc.
There’s probably still some unnecessary translations I could weed out and I could potentially subtract from a simple cube rather than fully described letters – this was a rough solution to the same problem the OP was having…
Cheers
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Ronaldo Persiano
Sent: 07 February 2018 00:28
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Chamfered 3D text
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I guess your second text call should have the same parameters as the first one: text_height instead of text_depth*2.
Anyway, I think you will get the same result with a simpler code:
module admg_chamfered_text1(some_text_here,text_height,text_depth,chamfer_depth,chamfer_width){
minkowski() {
linear_extrude(text_depth*2)
text(some_text_here,text_height,valign="center",halign="center");
cylinder(chamfer_depth,r1=chamfer_width,r2=0);
}
}
2018-02-06 21:12 GMT-02:00 Alex Gibson alex@alexgibson.net:
Here’s my solution to the same problem, using Minkowski…
Hi Ronaldo,
Sort of. While I’m pretty sure there are some redundancies in my code, it’s actually working slightly differently…
Rather than being the minkowski sum of the letters and a cone so that the top surface is the original letter, and letters get wider and with rounded corners, instead I’m using minkowski() to make the equivalent of a tool path to subtract from the letters – the chamfering reduces the top surface and the outer edges of letters are the original font.
Does that make sense? Have a look at the 2 side by side.
Both are potentially useful – I might make an updated 3D text library module that will allow you to select either and emboss or engrave, etc.
There’s probably still some unnecessary translations I could weed out and I could potentially subtract from a simple cube rather than fully described letters – this was a rough solution to the same problem the OP was having…
Cheers
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
· Project management
· Operations & Process improvement
· 3D Printing
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Ronaldo Persiano
Sent: 07 February 2018 00:28
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Chamfered 3D text
.
I guess your second text call should have the same parameters as the first one: text_height instead of text_depth*2.
Anyway, I think you will get the same result with a simpler code:
module admg_chamfered_text1(some_text_here,text_height,text_depth,chamfer_depth,chamfer_width){
minkowski() {
linear_extrude(text_depth*2)
text(some_text_here,text_height,valign="center",halign="center");
cylinder(chamfer_depth,r1=chamfer_width,r2=0);
}
}
2018-02-06 21:12 GMT-02:00 Alex Gibson <alex@alexgibson.net>:
Here’s my solution to the same problem, using Minkowski…
