Customizable 3D name plate

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<p>This is a proper configurable name plate, consisting of extruded letters. Use OpenSCAD to get the name/text/words you need. Use it to create mini name tags (the text in the picture is 9mm high) or big text sculptures!</p><p>Each letter and also the dots of 'i' and 'j' are connected together, so after printing it will not fall apart. (Its a mix of <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:739573">wstein</a>s and my method to do that.)</p><p>You can customize:</p><ul><li>The shown text.</li><li>The font. Nice is e.g.: "Orbitron", "Bangers" or "Luckiest Guy". You can get an overview of all available fonts on the <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts">Google Fonts page</a>. (The font list is from <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:739573">wstein</a>, thanks!)<br><strong>*NEW:</strong> You can add a heart ♥, smiley ☺ or other special characters (†←→↑↓◄►♪♫☼♦♠♣) now to the left or right of the text</li><li>The type of base (baseline or round).</li></ul><p>Thanks go to <a href="/GreenSnoopy/about">GreenSnoopy</a> for letting me show here a photo of her print.</p><p>Have fun!</p><h3>OpenSCAD</h3><p>Download latest version of OpenSCAD, (See section "Development snapshots" at <a href="https://www.openscad.org/downloads.html">https://www.openscad.org/downloads.html</a>)</p><ul><li>Download the .SCAD file from here.</li><li>Open the .scad file in OpenSCAD.</li><li>Change the variables. You find them in the beginning of the .SCAD file. E.g. text="<i>your text</i>";</li><li>Press "F5" to get a quick preview.</li><li>Press "F6" when you like the preview. This will render the geometry and takes a little time.</li><li>Press "F7" to save the geometry to an .STL file.</li></ul><p>Slice and print the .STL file.<br>3) Your font of choice is not found by OpenSCAD on your PC.</p><p>In case you miss some fonts in OpenSCAD, download them from google: <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts">http://www.google.com/fonts</a></p><p>Install all the fonts you want to use. Then restart OpenSCAD.<br>4) OpenSCAD won't pick up newly installed fonts in C:/Windows/Fonts.</p><p>In case new fonts are missing, put the font TTF files also in<i>C:\Program Files/OpenSCAD/fonts/Liberation-2.00.1/ttf</i> and restart OpenSCAD again.</p><h3>Print Instructions</h3><p>You can print it without any support.</p>