flo-l/openscad-text

A ruby gem to generate text for openscad with system fonts easily

openscad-text

A ruby gem to generate text in openscad with system fonts easily.

Installation:

You need ruby installed on your machine, on linux simply type:

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --with-gems="openscad-text"

This will install the ruby interpreter and the openscad-text gem.

Those who already have ruby installed can simply type the following to install the gem:

gem install openscad-text

Usage:

Create a file called nice_text.rb with the following content:

require 'openscad-text'

font = Text.available_fonts.find { |f| f =~ /times/ }
text = Text.new("Nice Text!", font)
puts text.to_openscad

If you're on Linux you can use the little script above like so:

ruby nice_text.rb > nice_text.scad

This will create a new file called nice_text.scad, which will contain the text as openscad model.

Have a look at the examples/ directory to see more! ;)

Examples:

openscad-text's Issues

Porting to Python

Hi, I'm interested to port your library to Python, but I don't really understand the algorithms on a high level.

How is the font rendering done? Do you extract it to some vector path before exporting to OpenSCAD?
What kind of helper libraries help with that?

Thanks a lot