Make-a-Name Christmas Ornament Letters Polka Dots

Build your own ornaments with decorative names, or any words! Just clone the letters you want, put them together, and merge them to create a single object for printing. Each letter can be customized in multiple ways for endless variety! 

Steps:

1. Clone the letters you want and build your word. Align the letters with the outermost outlines overlapping (see example ABC in model). 
2. Drag a hanger into position on your ornament.
3. Select your colors. There are so many combinations that will make great-looking ornaments!
4. Once your ornament looks the way you want it, merge all the letters and hanger together (select all and right-click “Merge”). Then you're ready to print!

Here's a short video that shows the process: 

Helpful Hints:

• The solid letters will print okay with a 0.4mm nozzle, although it will look best with a 0.2mm. A 0.2mm nozzle is a must for the polka dot or striped letters.
• The top color layers are set to a total height of 0.5mm. I find this works well to cover a white base layer. If you are using a darker color for the base, make sure you are using Matte PLA which is less opaque than Basic PLA, or scale the Z-Value up to make a thicker design.
• Scale the X and Y values freely to get the size you want - make taller or chunkier letters for even more variety! Note that changing the Z Value will change the overall thickness of the top color layers.
• Some letters (A,H,I,M,O,T,U,V,W,X,Y) can be mirrored on the X-Axis, which reverses the direction of the diagonal lines for even more variety.

Check out our collection of Personalized and Photo Ornaments. If you like a good laugh, visit our collection of Funny Christmas Ornaments, or our slightly naughty NSFW Funny Christmas Collection.

Wondering why we didn't create this as an OpenSCAD project? Our testing shows the multi-color functions currently in development do not consistently export usable files. Which means we went old school! We will continue to research and will hopefully get this project into a more automated form. For now, enjoy putting your letters together!