| Profile Height (mm) | |
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| Socket Height (mm) | |
| Size (mm) | |
| Padding (mm) | |
| Binary Stamp |
Stampmaker can create 3D-print-ready stamps from 2D images. It reads PNG or SVG files and generates watertight STL mesh files.
PNG input files should be grayscale without an alpha channel. White means flat while black is elevated. The stamp rectangle is determined by the input image. No additional border or padding is added.
SVG support is limited to SVG files with one path. Everything inside the path is elevated. Other features like colors, contours and text are not supported. Self-intersecting paths are not supported. Make sure to combine and merge all your elements to one path before importing. Inkscape is a useful tool for this. Arbitray holes and separated components should work. The stamp rectangle is determined by the bounds of the path itself. The tool will add some additional configurable padding around the extracted path.
The profile height determines how high the stamp area is elevated over the stamp socket. The stamp area is determined by the black pixels in PNG images or the inside area of a path from a SVG file.
The socket height determines how thick the stamp base is. The socket base is always rectangular.
The stamp size determines how big the stamp socket will be. The size refers always tp the biggest side (height or width) of the stamp. For PNG images this will be the overall stamp size, for SVG paths you have to add the additional padding on all sides for the overall stamp size.
This is only relevant for SVG paths. Since the stamp rectangle for SVG paths is derived from the path bounds and not from the SVG image, it needs additional padding to avoid that the stamp extrusion is at the outer border of the stamp socket. The stamp rectangle will be extended by this value in all four directions.
This is only relevant for PNG images. This option is enabled ny default. It will map all gray scale values either to a zero elevation or a full elevantion. If you disable this option, the extrusion will be scaled according to the gray scale value and allows small height steps inbetween. This can be useful when the stamp is not used to transfer color but is pressed into softer materials like leather.