Creating text for our 3D-printed name badge
In Chapter 5, Using Advanced Operations of OpenSCAD, we extruded text for our Thumbs Up Award design. Our focus was on creating a dynamic backing plate based on the size of the text, thus we limited our exposure of OpenSCAD's text operation to a monospaced font with default alignment and size settings.
In this section, we will look more closely at the text operation and at ways that would make our text curve around shapes. Let's start by taking a closer look at the text operation.
Understanding the OpenSCAD text operation
At the time of writing, the OpenSCAD text operation has 10 parameters that can be set. These include parameters for font, vertical and horizontal alignment, as well as the size of text and the spacing between letters. A full list of these parameters can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Text.
In this section, we will look at using a specialized font, letter spacing, font...
