Bead and jewelry generator
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Description
📿 The ultimate customizable parametric bead and jewelry generator!
Stop buying expensive, generic plastic beads that do not fit your specific cords or hair braids. This fully parametric OpenSCAD generator allows you to create highly stylized craft beads for necklaces, bracelets, dreadlocks, macrame, or lanyards. Choose from 9 base shapes and 6 gorgeous surface textures to design thousands of unique combinations!
Membership
Custom jewelry beads and dreadlock accessories are massive bestsellers on Etsy, school markets, and at local craft platforms. Want to sell physical prints of these beads legally? Join my Commercial Membership for only $4.99/mo to get full commercial rights to sell this model and ALL my other generators!
⚙️ Customizer features:
- 9 Base shapes: Instantly generate classic spheres, cylinders, cubes, hexagons, toruses, bicones, capsules, stars, or barrel shapes.
- 6 Premium surface textures: Switch from a standard Smooth bead to Faceted, Ribbed Vertical, Ribbed Horizontal, Spiral Twist, or a complex Diamond Knurled tactile grip.
- Dynamic threading holes: Fully adjust the diameter of the center hole and choose to orient it along the X, Y, or Z axis to match your design.
- Chamfered openings: Enable the Hole_Chamfer setting to mathematically bevel both ends of the thread channel, making it incredibly easy to slide cords, hair pins, or metal wires through without snagging.
- Endless customization: Tune your facet count, rib density, or spiral twist angles to create highly intricate, light-reflecting geometries.
🧠 Behind the design (For makers & moderators)
Creating flawless, complex knurls and twists mathematically requires highly optimized 3D matrix math. Instead of utilizing slow boolean cuts that crash the slicer, the knurled and spiral textures use linear extrusions mapped with precise twist angles.
By intersecting a right-handed twisted extrusion with a left-handed one (knurled_3d_base), the algorithm generates an incredibly clean, 100% manifold diamond pattern. The drill_hole function generates dual conical chamfers aligned to the chosen axis (X, Y, or Z) to guarantee the final model exports with perfect, support-free printing geometry.
🖨️ Print settings:
- Material: PLA Silk or Marble PLA looks incredibly realistic and premium for jewelry.
- Layer height: 0.12mm or 0.16mm works best. Fine layers resolve the intricate facet and knurled curves beautifully.
- Supports: STRICTLY NONE. The chamfered hole angles are designed to bridge flawlessly in mid-air.
- Walls: Set to 3 to ensure the internal thread channel is exceptionally strong.
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License
You shall not share, sub-license, sell, rent, host, transfer, or distribute in any way the digital or 3D printed versions of this object, nor any other derivative work of this object in its digital or physical format (including - but not limited to - remixes of this object, and hosting on other digital platforms). The objects may not be used without permission in any way whatsoever in which you charge money, or collect fees.
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