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Garden tags

My mom always keeps the plastic tags that comes with the plants and puts them in her garden. Her birthday came up, so I made here these nice wooden garden signs.

They were made in openSCAD, which means if you follow the steps here, you can easily make them yourselves with custom names.

How to make garden tags

use <fontmetrics.scad>;

//Adjust text below
tekst = ["BLEEKSELDERIJ","AARDAPPEL", "ANDIJVIE", "PEPER", "PLUKSLA", "KNOFLOOK", "BONEN", "SUIKERMAIS", "SPERZIEBONEN", "Wortels","Ui","Snijbiet", "Sla", "Erwt", "Komkommer", "Kool", "Biet", "Artisjok", "Dille","Rucola", "Tomaten", "Knolselderij", "Pastinaak"];
//Adjust font below
font = "Liberation Sans Narrow:style=Bold";
//Adjust height with size
size = 15;
spalk=size/2;

//Adjust total lenght and triangle length below
breedtetotaal= 210;
breedtedriehoek=70;




//The functions and modules (make a single tag)
function Capitalise (string) = 
    chr([for (c = string) if (ord(c)>=97 && ord(c)<= 122) (ord(c)-32) else ord(c)]);
    

module Tagify (inputt) {
    plantnaam= Capitalise(inputt);
    
    w = measureText(plantnaam, font=font, size=size,spacing=0.9);
    breedtemidstuk= breedtetotaal-breedtedriehoek-w;      
    translate([w,0,0]){
        translate([(-w/2),0,0])
            drawText(plantnaam,font=font, size=size, spacing=0.9, halign=    "center");
            
            
        translate([(-w*0.995),-size/2,0])
            square([(w*0.995)+breedtemidstuk,size/2]);
             
         
        square([breedtemidstuk,size]);
        polygon([[breedtemidstuk,-spalk],[breedtemidstuk,size],[breedtemidstuk+breedtedriehoek,(spalk+size)/2 - spalk]]); 
    }   
}


// The for loop (makes multiple tags)
for (i = [0:len(tekst)-1]) {
   translate([0,((size+spalk+1)*i),0])
    Tagify (tekst[i]);
    }
  • You can adjust the text. The code will automatically capitalise the text.
  • You can also adjust the font, but only standard issue fonts are available.
  • Run (F5) and render (F6) to get your vector file
  • Export as .dxf and you're ready to load it in the laser!

I coloured them with Watercolour ink/Ecoline to make the letters pop out

moestuinbordjes_garden_tags.txt · Last modified: 2021/11/14 09:09 by jolien