Share your Generator Finds!

[Katy]

Was just poking around a bit online and decided that it might be nice to have a spot for sharing neat online generators. So share em if you got em!

I just found this one for snowflakes:

Snowflake Generator for CNC, Laser Cutter and more

Here is one with all kinds of neat game icons you can adjust:
http://game-icons.net/

And this one for gears:

Involute spur gear generator and simulator

Mazes!

Maze Generator

Rulers:
http://robbbb.github.io/VectorRuler/

Fantasy City Maps!

Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou

[bill_laba]

Thanks, can’t wait to try them.

[bwente]

From a previous post…

http://www.festi.info/boxes.py/

[jkopel]

Custom Scrabble® Tile generator

Back in August I made a Ruby program to generate SVG files for Scrabble® tile sets with custom images on the back. We’ve been pretty busy here (as you know) but I got inspired by some of the work that I’ve seen on the forum. You can customize these by supplying an SVG file that will be used as the image on the reverse side of the tiles. The SVG file will be automatically scaled to fit the backs of the tiles. You can also choose to split the tiles into two parts for cutting on smaller pieces of…

Generative SVGs for engraving

Hey all! One of the things I do in my spare time is make lots of generative/algorithmic art with code, using tools like Processing, openFrameworks, etc. I recently released the code for an app that will load a photo and create a sort-of halftone image using sine waves. That is, the brightness/darkness of the image will increase or decrease the amplitude of a sine wave as it goes across the image. It’s easier to see the example below. The output of the app is a SVG file. I originally created t…

Guilloche/Spirograph-like Design App with PNG/SVG save

I was in our local TAP Plastics last week and saw a few large, round disks of acrylic on the wall that they had laser-etched a spirograph-like pattern into (there was a fluorescent-orange one that didn’t even need edge lighting to look super-cool). I wasn’t sure where they got the pattern to etch, but I knew that it should be pretty easy to write an app to do it. Of course me being me, I kept adding more and more features, which of course included saving as either a PNG for etching or SVG for p…

Jigsaw puzzle generator

After reading this thread, I started looking for a jigsaw generator. I found this older thread. In both of them there are some links, google found a few others. All in all, I wasn’t satisfied with the results, so I wrote my own. I hope this is useful to some of you as well. (I don’t have my glowforge yet, so I don’t know if the .svg will cut as is. It does open with the correct dimensions in Inkscape, though.) Jigsaw puzzle generator [image] Code also available as gist, in case you want to fo…

Line artwork Spiral

I ran across something called “quasiystals” recently. They are non-repeating patterns that LOOK like repeating patterns. I won’t pretend to understand the math but the results are beautiful. [image] And… for your glowforging pleasure I found an online quasicrystal pattern generator that makes SVG files! http://berjon.com/quasi/

[Jules]

Moving to Tips and Tricks and linking.

[jbmanning5]

I think most of mine have been linked here at one time or another. But great idea for a cohesive list! I’ll see if I can dig them up.

And great job on the profile pic! I thought to myself, who is this special person with the green aura around their profile picture? Fancy!

[Katy]

I’m a sneaky wabbit!

[cynd11]

Bookmarked. Thanks!

[marc.simon1]

http://www.senteacher.org/worksheet/12/NetsPolyhedra.html

Template maker

Some templates maker

[morganstanfield]

Great thread! What a rabbit hole!

[ptodd]

Great!!!

[Katy]

lol XD

[anticzcom]

http://www.makercase.com/

[jbmanning5]

This oughta be here also - thanks to @dan_berry

Javascript SVG/DXF/PDF generation

I just came across this when I was updating some tools I had on my PC… Maker.js is a Microsoft Garage project with source code on GitHub that looks to have a decent coding interface and looks like it might be entertaining to code things in. Their project page has some interesting demos that look intriguing! Your compass and straightedge, in JavaScript. Create line drawings using familiar constructs from geometry and drafting. Initially designated for CNC and laser cutters, Maker.js can also …

[milutz]

Table/Bench generator:
https://sjc3.discourse-cdn.com/business5/uploads/glowforge/optimized/3X/e/c/ec8834534ae705f4db743d66e7136a02f0b37d75_1_446x500.jpg

Table/workbench auto-plan-creating website (Incite-focus)

Tested.com has posted a number videos about a maker space called incite-focus that focuses on building systems that help people build stuff. An amazing thing they just covered is a website they have that will let you input the dimensions of a workbench and it will output files to create it. The website is: http://www.incite-focus.org/table/ I believe they use a shop-bot to cut their table elements, and as I don’t have my glowforge yet I’m not completely sure how easy it will be to use their p…

[marc.simon1]

Another simple box generator :
http://jeromeleary.com/laser/

[bwente]

Stencilizr converts your pictures into visually striking two-tone images with smooth edges.

http://stencilizr.com/

[evansd2]

Neat single serving site. However, if you need to finesse this…

You can accomplish this in inkscape with the trace function. You can set the edge detection thresholds to meet your needs.

Likewise if you want to work on it in raster mode, in gimp you can desaturated your image (this converting to greyscale) then use curves to make a “step” instead of a curve shape to converts it to black and white at whatever “threshold” you like. You’ll have far more control over the output.

[bwente]

I just added it for the sake of completeness.
Some people might not have the access or skills to make it on their own.

I still use an online box generator rather than fire up Fusion 360.

[evansd2]

Yeah me too on box generator sites. I have yet to need f360.