Permanent Plant Labels

prusaprinters

<p>My wife is a Master Gardener and has a VERY large garden. &nbsp;She plants some things every year. &nbsp;Normal plant labels don't work, so she asked me to make her some permanent plant labels.</p><p>Originally, I created this model in Fusion 360, but that is not as useful a tool for something this simple that you want to configure over and over. &nbsp;So, I recreated it in OpenSCAD.</p><p>The OpenSCAD supports multiple options:</p><ul><li>first_line - the top line (or single line) of text</li><li>second_line - optional second line of text</li><li>font - defaults to “Arial”</li><li>font_scale_factor - used to scale fonts down when you have 1 long word like “Cucumber” and half of it would be in the soil</li><li>text_equal_lines - true/false if you want the first and second lines to be equal sizes. By default it's a 60/40 split in size with the first line being bigger than the 2nd</li></ul><p>So, in the image show, the “Bean/Asian Long” uses the default setting for 2 lines. &nbsp;The “Malabar/Spinach” uses equal lines setting. Kohlrabi is just first_line with no other changes</p><p>I started using this a lot and got tired of opening/closing OpenSCAD and doing things manually, so I created a powershell script (I'm a windows user) to run OpenSCAD with the right parameter.</p><p>This script was a HUGE pain because of weirdness running OpenSCAD on windows, but I can use it now. (you have to remove the “.txt” off of the file name)</p><p>To use the script, do this:</p><blockquote><p>.\CreatePlantLabel.ps1 -FirstLine Malabar -SecondLine Spinach -EqualLines</p></blockquote><p>If you need to pass words with spaces in it, you need to do weird things with the quotes:</p><blockquote><p>.\CreatePlantLabel.ps1 -FirstLine Bean -SecondLine ‘"Asian Long"’</p></blockquote><p>(that is single quotes around double quotes around the string with a space in it)</p><p>You can also pass -FontScaleFactor or -Out (to change the output file name).</p><p>By default it will construct an output file name for you</p>