Personalise your Christmas tree with this awesome, customizable, Voronoi sphere bauble decoration!

This design is completely free and shared under a permissive license. Your support is hugely appreciated.

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OpenSCAD Customizer Options

This design has the following Customizer options:

Text

• Text - The text
• Font - The font
• Other_Font - Enter a font name and select 'Other' (above) to use this font.
• Font_Size - Font size
• Text_Degrees - Degrees from center of first letter to center of last. Determines letter spacing.
• Text_Rotation - Rotation of the text
• Text_H_Offset_Degrees - Horizontal text offset in degrees
• Text_V_Offset_Percent - Vertical text offset as percentage of Font_Size
• Text_Extrusion_Percent - Text extrusion as percentage of material thickness of the sphere

Bauble

• Bauble_Diameter - Diameter of bauble

Hanger

• Hanger_Hole_Diameter - Diameter of the hole
• Hanger_Thickness - Thickness of the hander material

Custom Font

The Other Font option allows you to use a font from your system. To use a system font:

1. Open the .scad file in OpenSCAD
2. Click Help > Font List, to find the name of the font you'd like to use
3. You can use the 'Copy to Clipboard' button to copy it to the clipboard
4. Paste it into the Other Font text box
5. If you used the 'Copy to Clipboard' button, you'll need to remove the double quotes that surround the name
6. Select the Other - Enter font name below option from the Font dropdown

Finishing with glitter

You will need:

• Water-based découpage glue - clear gloss works best
• A fine brush - one you are happy to use to apply the glue
• Glitter - fine crafting glitter works best
• Sheet(s) of paper - to recover any excess glitter (you may need several sheets if you'd like to avoid mixing colors)
• A container with a small amount of fresh water (for soaking the brush between coats)

When customizing your bauble, we recommend using the Text_Extrusion_Percent settings to raise the height of the text as this can help when applying the glue.

1) Place your bauble on a sheet of paper
2) Apply glue to the area you'd like to glitter - if working with multiple colors, glue one color at a time
3) Sprinkle a generous amount of glitter on the glued area
4) Collect up any excess glitter by folding the paper and pouring it back into the glitter container
5) If working with multiple colors, repeat steps 1 - 4 until you've applied glitter in all the areas you'd like
6) Leave the brush to soak and wait for the glue to dry
7) Repeat steps 1 - 6 a second or third time until covered to your satisfaction
8) Add a final layer of glue over all the glitter to seal it
9) Wait for the glue to dry and wash the brush well

Versions

• 1.0 (19 Dec 2020) - Initial version

Printing

Recommended slicer settings:

• Resolution: 0.1mm - 0.2mm
• Infill: 20% - 100% depending how durable you'd like it to be.
• Supports: Yes (if using Cura we recommend using the Tree supports option and adding a 'Brim' to help the Tree supports adhere to your print bed)
• Rafts: Doesn't matter

License

The "Personalised Voronoi Sphere Christmas Bauble Decoration" models (.stl) are licensed under the CC BY license by Code and Make.

The "Personalised Voronoi Sphere Christmas Bauble Decoration" code (.scad) is licensed under The MIT License by Code and Make.

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