/* Version 4Added bold property bold=0 (not bold) bold=1(bolder by 1.1) bold=2(bolder by 1.2)Added support for font selection (default is Letters.dxf)Added WriteCube moduleAdded Rotate for text (rotates on the plane of the text)Added writesphereAdded space= (spacing between characters in char widths) def=1Added writecylinder()By Harlan Martinharlan@sutlog.comJanuary 2012(The file TestWrite.scad gives More usage examples)(This module requires the file Letters.dxf to reside in the same folder)(The file Letters.dfx was created with inkscape..Each letter is in its own layer)(This module seperates each letter in the string and imports it from Letters.dfx)*/pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209;pi2=pi*2;// These control the default values for write() writesphere() writecube()// if the parameters are not included in the call. Feel free to set your own// defaults.//default settingsbold=0;center=false;h = 4; //mm letter heightt = 1; //mm letter thicknessspace =1; //extra space between characters in (character widths)rotate=0; // text rotation (clockwise)font = "Letters.dxf"; //default for aditional fonts// write cube defaultsface = "front"; // default face (top,bottom,left,right,back,front)up =0; //mm up from center on face of cubedown=0;right =0; //mm left from center on face of cubeleft=0;// write sphere defaultsrounded=false; //default for rounded letters on writespherenorth=0; // intial text position (I suggest leave these 0 defaults)south=0;east=0;west=0;spin=0;// writecylinder defaultsmiddle=0; //(mm toward middle of circle)ccw=false; //write on top or bottom in a ccw directionr1=0; //(not implimented yet)r2=0; //(not implimented yet)// Contact me if your interested in how to make your own font files// Its tedious and time consuming, but not very hardmodule writecylinder(text,where,radius,height){wid=(.125* h *5.5 * space);widall=wid*(len(text)-1)/2;//angle that measures width of letters on spherefunction NAngle(radius)=(wid/(pi2*radius))*360;//angle of half width of textfunction mmangle(radius)=(widall/(pi2*radius)*360);if ((face=="top")||(face=="bottom") ){if (face=="top" ){if (center==true){writecircle(text,where+[0,0,height/2],radius-h,rotate=rotate,font=font,h=h,t=t,space=space,east=east,west=west,middle=middle,ccw=ccw,bold=bold);}else{writecircle(text,where+[0,0,height],radius-h,rotate=rotate,font=font,h=h,t=t,space=space,east=east,west=west,middle=middle,ccw=ccw,bold=bold);}}else{rotate(180,[1,0,0])if (center==true){writecircle(text,where+[0,0,height/2],radius-h,rotate=rotate,font=font,h=h,t=t,space=space,east=east,west=west,middle=middle,ccw=ccw,bold=bold);}else{writecircle(text,where+[0,0,0],radius-h,rotate=rotate,font=font,h=h,t=t,space=space,east=east,west=west,middle=middle,ccw=ccw,bold=bold);}}}else{// if (radius>0){if (center==true) {rotate(-mmangle(radius)*(1-abs(rotate)/90),[0,0,1])translate(where)writethecylinder(text,where,radius,height,r1=radius,r2=radius,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,east=east,west=west,center=center,space=space,rounded=rounded,bold=bold);} else{rotate(-mmangle(radius)*(1-abs(rotate)/90),[0,0,1])translate(where+[0,0,height/2])writethecylinder(text,where,radius,height,r1=radius,r2=radius,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,east=east,west=west,center=center,space=space,rounded=rounded,bold=bold);}// the remarked out code is for cone shaped cylinders (not complete)// }else{// if (center==true) {// rotate(-mmangle(radius)*(1-abs(rotate)/90),[0,0,1])// translate(where)// writethecylinder(text,where,radius,height,r1=r1,r2=r2,h=h,// rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,// east=east,west=west,center=center,space=space,rounded=rounded);// } else{// rotate(-mmangle(radius)*(1-abs(rotate)/90),[0,0,1])// translate(where+[0,0,height/2])// writethecylinder(text,where,radius,height,r1=r1,r2=r2,h=h,// rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,// east=east,west=west,center=center,space=space,rounded=rounded);// }// }}}module writecircle(text,where,radius){wid=(.125* h *5.5 * space);widall=wid*(len(text)-1)/2;//angle that measures width of letters on spherefunction NAngle(radius)=(wid/(pi2*radius))*360;//angle of half width of textfunction mmangle(radius)=(widall/(pi2*radius)*360);if (ccw==true){rotate(-rotate+east-west,[0,0,1]){rotate(-mmangle(radius-middle),[0,0,1]){translate(where)for (r=[0:len(text)-1]){rotate(-90+r*NAngle(radius-middle),[0,0,1]) // bottom out=-270+rtranslate([radius-middle,0,0])//rotate(90,[1,0,0])//rotate(90,[0,1,0])rotate(-270,[0,0,1]) // flip text (botom out = -270)write(text[r],center=true,h=h,t=t,font=font,bold=bold);}}}}else{rotate(-rotate-east+west,[0,0,1]){rotate(mmangle(radius-middle),[0,0,1]){translate(where)for (r=[0:len(text)-1]){rotate(90-r*NAngle(radius-middle),[0,0,1]) // bottom out=-270+rtranslate([radius-middle,0,0])//rotate(90,[1,0,0])//rotate(90,[0,1,0])rotate(270,[0,0,1]) // flip text (botom out = -270)write(text[r],center=true,h=h,t=t,font=font,bold=bold);}}}}}module writethecylinder(text,where,radius,height,r1,r2){wid=(.125* h *5.5 * space);widall=wid*(len(text)-1)/2;//angle that measures width of letters on spherefunction NAngle(radius)=(wid/(pi2*radius))*360*(1-abs(rotate)/90);//angle of half width of textfunction mmangle(radius)=(widall/(pi2*radius)*360);translate([0,0,up-down])rotate(east-west,[0,0,1])for (r=[0:len(text)-1]){rotate(-90+(r*NAngle(radius)),[0,0,1])translate([radius,0,-r*((rotate)/90*wid)+(len(text)-1)/2*((rotate)/90*wid)])rotate(90,[1,0,0])rotate(90,[0,1,0])write(text[r],center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,bold=bold);//echo("zloc=",height/2-r*((rotate)/90*wid)+(len(text)-1)/2*((rotate)/90*wid));}}module writesphere(text,where,radius){wid=(.125* h *5.5 * space);widall=wid*(len(text)-1)/2;echo("-----------------",widall,wid,mmangle(radius));//angle that measures width of letters on spherefunction NAngle(radius)=(wid/(pi2*radius))*360;//angle of half width of textfunction mmangle(radius)=(widall/(pi2*radius)*360);rotate(east-west,[0,0,1]){rotate(south-north,[1,0,0]){rotate(spin,[0,1,0]){rotate(-mmangle(radius),[0,0,1]){if ( rounded== false ){translate(where)for (r=[0:len(text)-1]){rotate(-90+r*NAngle(radius),[0,0,1])translate([radius,0,0])rotate(90,[1,0,0])rotate(90,[0,1,0])write(text[r],center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,bold=bold);}}else{difference(){translate(where)for (r=[0:len(text)-1]){rotate(-90+r*NAngle(radius),[0,0,1])translate([radius,0,0])rotate(90,[1,0,0])rotate(90,[0,1,0])write(text[r],center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t*2+h,font=font,bold=bold);}difference(){ //rounded outsidesphere(radius+(t*2+h)*2);sphere(radius+t/2);}sphere(radius-t/2); // rounded inside for indented text}}}}}}}module writecube(text,where,size){if (str(size)[0] != "["){// its a square cube (size was not a matrix so make it one)writethecube(text,where,[size,size,size],h=h,rotate=rotate,space=space,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,right=right,left=left,bold=bold);}else{// its not squarewritethecube(text,where,size,h=h,rotate=rotate,space=space,t=t,font=font,face=face,up=up,down=down,right=right,left=left,bold=bold);}}// I split the writecube module into 2 pieces.. easier to add features latermodule writethecube(text,where,size){if (face=="front") {translate([where[0]+right-left,where[1]-size[1]/2,where[2]+up-down])rotate(90,[1,0,0])write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}if (face=="back") {translate([where[0]+right-left,where[1]+size[1]/2,where[2]+up-down])rotate(90,[1,0,0]) // rotate around the x axisrotate(180,[0,1,0]) // rotate around the y axis (z before rotation)write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}if (face=="left") {translate([where[0]-size[0]/2,where[1]-right+left,where[2]+up-down ])rotate(90,[1,0,0]) // rotate around the x axisrotate(90,[0,-1,0]) // rotate around the y axis (z before rotation)write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}if (face=="right") {translate([where[0]+size[0]/2,where[1]+right-left,where[2] +up-down])rotate(90,[1,0,0]) // rotate around the x axisrotate(90,[0,1,0]) // rotate around the y axis (z before rotation)write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}if (face=="top") {translate([where[0]+right-left,where[1]+up-down,where[2]+size[2]/2 ])write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}if (face=="bottom") {translate([where[0]+right-left,where[1]-up+down,where[2]-size[2]/2 ])rotate(180,[1,0,0])write(text,center=true,h=h,rotate=rotate,t=t,font=font,space=space,bold=bold);}}module write(word){echo (h);echo (word);echo ("There are " ,len(word) ," letters in this string");// echo ("The second letter is ",word[1]);// echo (str(word[0],"_"));minkowski() {rotate(rotate,[0,0,-1]){for (r = [0:len(word)]){ // count off each character// if the letter is lower case, add an underscore to the end for file lookupif ((word[r] == "a" ) || (word[r]== "b") || (word[r]== "c")|| (word[r]== "d") || (word[r]== "e") || (word[r]== "f")|| (word[r]== "g") || (word[r]== "h") || (word[r]== "i")|| (word[r]== "j") || (word[r]== "k") || (word[r]== "l")|| (word[r]== "m") || (word[r]== "n") || (word[r]== "o")|| (word[r]== "p") || (word[r]== "q") || (word[r]== "r")|| (word[r]== "s") || (word[r]== "t") || (word[r]== "u")|| (word[r]== "v") || (word[r]== "w") || (word[r]== "x")|| (word[r]== "y" )|| (word[r]== "z")){if (center == true) {translate([0,-h/2,0]){scale([.125*h,.125*h,t]){translate([ (-len(word)*5.5*space/2) + (r*5.5*space),0,0])//offset(delta = 20, join_type = "round") {linear_extrude(height=1,convexity=10,center=true){import(file = font,layer=str(word[r],"_"));}//}}}}else{translate([0,0,t/2]){scale([.125*h,.125*h,t]){translate([r*5.5*space,0,0])//offset(delta = 20, join_type = "round") {linear_extrude(height=1,convexity=10,center=true){import(file = font,layer=str(word[r],"_"));}//}}}}}else{if (center == true) {translate([0,-h/2,0]){scale([.125*h,.125*h,t]){translate([ (-len(word)*5.5*space/2) + (r*5.5*space),0,0])//offset(delta = 20, join_type = "round") {linear_extrude(height=1,convexity=10,center=true){import(file = font,layer=str(word[r]));}//}}}}else{translate([0,0,t/2]){scale([.125*h,.125*h,t]){translate([r*5.5*space,0,0])//offset(delta = 20, join_type = "round") {linear_extrude(height=1,convexity=10,center=true){import(file = font,layer=str(word[r]));}//}}}}}}}cube([bold*.1*h,bold*.1*h,.00001]);}}/*writecylinder testtranslate([0,0,0])%cylinder(r=20,h=40,center=true);color([1,0,0])writecylinder("rotate=90",[0,0,0],20,40,center=true,down=0,rotate=90);writecylinder("rotate = 30,east = 90",[0,0,0],20,40,center=true,down=0,rotate=30,east=90);writecylinder("ccw = true",[0,0,0],20,40,center=true,down=0,face="top",ccw=true);writecylinder("middle = 8",[0,0,0],20,40,h=3,center=true,down=0,face="top",middle=8);writecylinder("face = top",[0,0,0],20,40,center=true,down=0,face="top");writecylinder("east=90",[0,0,0],20,40,h=3,center=true,down=0,face="top",east=90);writecylinder("west=90",[0,0,0],20,40,h=3,center=true,down=0,face="top",ccw=true,west=90);writecylinder("face = bottom",[0,0,0],20,40,center=true,down=0,face="bottom");*//*writesphere testsphere(20);color([1,0,0])writesphere("Hello World",[0,0,0],20,t=1,h=6);*//* writecube testtranslate([30,30,30])cube([10,15,30],center=true);write("hello",center=true,rotate =30);color([1,0,0])writecube( "front",[30,30,30],[10,15,30],h=5,rotate=-90);color([0,1,0])writecube( "back",[30,30,30],size=[10,15,30],h=5,face="back",rotate=90,t=4);color([0,0,1])writecube( "left",[30,30,30],[10,15,30],h=5,face="left",up=5);color([1,1,0])writecube( "right",where=[30,30,30],size=[10,15,30],h=5,face="right",rotate=55);color([1,0,1])writecube( "top",where=[30,30,30],size=[10,15,30],h=5,face="top");color([1,1,1])writecube( "bttm",where=[30,30,30],size=[10,15,30],h=5,face="bottom",rotate=90);*/