Entire collection of letters, numbers and symbols

thingiverse

The STL files in this zip archive were created by a script that directly acted on the Vera TTF file. They are derivative of that font and subject to its generous licence conditions. As required by the copyright, the Vera copyright notice is included in this archive. The STL files for each glyph may seem strangely named at first, but they are actually named by the Unicode code for the corresponding character. For example, the Unicode code for "A" is 65, and the file for the "A" glyph is named 00065.stl. This avoids having strange characters or unwieldy and ambiguous natural language names for the files. I created these files because I wanted some polygons for an easy-to-read font and was disappointed to find few available. 6brueder had provided some on thingiverse, but most of the lowercase letters seemed to be missing. I eventually gave up and decided to do it myself. Having done it, I decided to plug the output back into thingiverse, so here it is. My STL files are different from those of 6brueder in that each glyph has been made into a type-set with a background plane block. This has two advantages. The first is that the letters can be positioned against each other to make a sequence that can be printed as a single object, spelling out anything you like. The second is that the face layer of the background block contains the triangles for a void around the base of the glyph, which means there is the "negative" of the letter waiting for anyone to extract it. If you do this, it means you can plug one of the letters into another project simply by carefully constructing a rectangular hole in your project for the letter to fit into. The file set is complete, containing all the simple glyphs contained in Vera (158 in all), so includes all the lower case letters and many other characters besides. There is an extra file, ribbon.stl, which is a merger of all the others into a single file. Note that it contains not a single shell, but a collection of 158 shells in a single file. The shells overlap slightly, which might cause issues depending on the software you are using, but might enable a quick overview of the STLs without having to load them one at a time. There is also a png image of the glyphs showing their breakdown into triangles, which can be used as a sort of selection box, at least to know what is included. Like 6brueder's, these STLs have an H-height of 40mm, but they are easily scaled to any desired size. Have fun. JohnCook January 2017