Looking at advanced OpenSCAD commands
A quick and extensive reference for OpenSCAD commands is the OpenSCAD cheat sheet, which can be accessed from the Help menu (click on Help | Cheat Sheet). As we can see, there are quite a few operations and commands that we can add to our OpenSCAD scripts.
In this section, we will look at a few of these operations to create a plaque for our Thumbs Up award. Specifically, we will look at the text and len operations.
We will start by looking at the fonts that are available for the text operation. For our purposes, we will be using a monospaced font.
What Are Monospaced Fonts?
Those of us who are old enough to remember a world where correspondence was done using typewriters are already familiar with monospaced fonts. If we think of the way a typewriter punches letters onto paper, we can visualize that the space between each letter is the same (monospaced). With the introduction of word processors, proportional fonts became possible for...