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Christmas bauble generator

Christian Cristofori avatarChristian Cristofori

November 18, 2024

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Description

This generator easily allows you to create a beautiful Christmas bauble to be appended to any Christmas Tree and placing one or two names or texts on it, here’s a complete guide to the generating parameters.

 

Subscribers to my Get to the source commercial membership can get access to the original .SCAD files and use OpenSCAD nightly builds to run them, if you don’t know how to do it, I wrote a full but simple step by step guide that you can find attached to this project.

Texts

ParameterDescriptionunitminmaxdefault
text_1The first text to be shown.   MERRY
text_2The second text to be shown.   CHRISTMAS
fontThe font to be used for the texts.
Included list is MakerWorld's supported fonts.
   Luckiest Guy
custom_fontOverride the above setting with a custom font name.   empty
styleThe style to be applied to the font.   Regular
text_heightThe physical height of texts.millimeters610020
font_spacing

Characters spacing in texts.

The higher the number the wider the characters are placed.

 021
text_spaceVertical spacing between the two texts.millimeters0201
text_depthThe depth of the text above the bauble.millimeters0301
text_boldnessRoundness of the text as percentage of depth.%01000
text_angleAngle of the text.°-90900
merge_line

Selects how to create a solid line that merges all the letters of the texts.

This value can be:

  • Off – no solid is created;

  • Above – a line through the top of the name is created;
  • Strikethrough – a line through the middle of the name is created;
  • Below – a line through the bottom of the name is created;
  • As base – a full base around the name is created;
  • As middle line – a line in the middle of two text is created;
  • As full base – the whole texts are surrounded by a line.
   As full base
merge_line_depthDepth of merge line or base as percentage of bauble height.%110010
merge_line_widthWidth of merge line as percentage of text height.%130020
text_filament

Select a standard filament for the texts.

 

Provided list is the list of Bambu Lab filaments with their correct color codes.

 

You can also set this parameter to Custom and select your custom color in the text_color parameter below.

   Bambu Lab PLA Basic Jade White
text_color

Select a custom filament color for the texts.

This value is used only if the above text_filament parameter is set to Custom.

   #FFFFFF

Bauble

ParameterDescriptionunitminmaxdefault
bauble_sizeThe size of the bauble as percentage of the width of the text.%25200100
bauble_depthThe depth of the bauble.millimeters0.4207
bauble_borderThe width of the bauble border.millimeters0.4105
bauble_base

A base inside the bauble, in percentage of bauble depth.

Set this value to 0 (zero) for no base.

%01000
bauble_boldness

Roundness of the bauble in percentage of width or depth.

WARNING: time consuming setting, could cause Parametric Model Maker failure to generate model.

%010050
bauble_filament

Select a standard filament for the bauble.

 

Provided list is the list of Bambu Lab filaments with their correct color codes.

 

You can also set this parameter to Custom and select your custom color in the bauble_color parameter below.

   Bambu Lab PLA Basic Red
bauble_color

Select a custom filament color for the bauble.

This value is used only if the above bauble_filament parameter is set to Custom.

   #C12E1F

Border ornament X

You can have up to four ornaments around and above the border each of them can be configured with these parameters.

ParameterDescriptionunitminmax
boX_type

Activate an ornament on the border and select its type.

This value can be:

  • None – no ornament is created;
  • Star – a star is created as ornament;
  • Snowflake – a snowflake is created as ornament;
  • Heart – a heart is created as ornament;
   
boX_angleSelect the position around the bauble of this ornament.°-180180
boX_sizeThe diameter of the ornament.mm550
boX_base_sizeThe size of the ornament sustains as percentage of ornament diameter.%100200
boX_depthThe depth of the ornament above the bauble.mm020
boX_rotationRotation of the ornament of its central axis.°-180180
boX_raysThe number of rays of the snowflake or points of the star. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star or Snowflake. 312
boX_subraysThe number of branches on each ray of the snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 26
boX_ray_widthThe width of the ray in snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 0.210
boX_subray_widthThe width of the branches in snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 0.25
boX_subray_extensionThe maximum extension of the branch in percentage of maximum possible extension. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake.%1100
boX_boldness

The boldness of ornament in percentage of rays’ width.

WARNING: time consuming setting, could cause Parametric Model Maker failure to generate model.

%0100
boX_star_anglesThe angle that star spikes are designed. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star. 1100
boX_star_roundnessThe roundness of the star border. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star. 05
boX_filament

Select a standard filament for the ornament.

 

Provided list is the list of Bambu Lab filaments with their correct color codes.

 

You can also set this parameter to Custom and select your custom color in the boX _color parameter below.

   
boX_color

Select a custom filament color for the bauble.

This value is used only if the above boX _filament parameter is set to Custom.

   

Ornament X

You can have up to four ornaments around the background and each of them can be configured with these parameters.

ParameterDescriptionunitminmax
oX_type

Activate an ornament on the border and select its type.

This value can be:

  • None – no ornament is created;
  • Star – a star is created as ornament;
  • Snowflake – a snowflake is created as ornament;
  • Heart – a heart is created as ornament;
   
oX_angleSelect the position around the bauble of this ornament.°-180180
oX_distanceSelect the distance from the center of the the bauble.%0200
oX_sizeThe diameter of the ornament.mm5100
oX_clipSpecifies if the shape must be cut to the part internal to the bauble (true) or can extend outside the bauble (false).bool  
oX_depthThe depth of the ornament above the bauble.mm020
oX_rotationRotation of the ornament of its central axis.°-180180
oX_raysThe number of rays of the snowflake or points of the star. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star or Snowflake. 312
oX_subraysThe number of branches on each ray of the snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 212
oX_ray_widthThe width of the ray in snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 0.210
oX_subray_widthThe width of the branches in snowflake. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake. 0.25
oX_subray_extensionThe maximum extension of the branch in percentage of maximum possible extension. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Snowflake.%1100
oX_boldness

The boldness of ornament in percentage of rays’ width.

WARNING: time consuming setting, could cause Parametric Model Maker failure to generate model.

%0100
oX_star_anglesThe angle that star spikes are designed. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star. 1100
oX_star_roundnessThe roundness of the star border. This is only valid if boX_type has a value of Star. 05

Hook

ParameterDescriptionunitminmaxdefault
hook_mode

Mode of creation of the hook.

This value can be:

  • None – no hook is created;
  • Single – one simple hook is created;
  • Double – two specular hooks are created.
   Single
hook_distanceDistance of the hook from the bauble.millimeters0300
hook_diameterThe inner diameter of the hook hole.millimeters0.42010
hook_borderThe width of the hook border.millimeters0.4104
hook_depthThe depth of the hook.millimeters0.4254
hook_anglePosition of the hook around the bauble.°-1801800
hook_boldnessRoundness of the hook in percentage of width or depth.%0100100

Rendering

ParameterDescriptiondefault
render_quality

Choose the quality of generation of the objects, the higher quality the more memory/time generation will take.

This value can be:

  • Basic;
  • Draft;
  • Standard;
  • Detailed;
  • High;
  • Ultra precision;
  • Production.

My advice is to find your settings for the whole object using Basic to Standard rendering, then switching to Production when ready to export.

Standard

License:

Standard Digital File License

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