Gingerbread House Xmas Card kit - Added details, customisable text - multiple languages

This is a remixed version of the great card by Thingiverse user Nakozen (Creative Commons lic / no commercial…
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This is a remixed version of the great card by Thingiverse user Nakozen (Creative Commons lic / no commercial use): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4689896

But I based this particular update on the Biggsandwedge user's remix, as it had relaxed tolerances (which I was finding I needed): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5166977

Updates:

Details now printable on the back of the house

  • I flipped the back of the house, so I could add details

Included a few custom detail bits for the back of house:

  • Christmas tree
  • Candy Canes
  • 2023
  • Bremen Musicians
  • This is a 'shout out' to Bremem - just because I'm living here at the moment and I love the place and the people

Added card kits with messages in various languages

I've also left everything pre-positioned in a Meshmixer .mix file

  • Just select the layers you want in browser window, make them visible, and "Combine", before exporting your custom gingerbread house to STL

You can also create your own custom image / text detail for the back of house

  • I added an OpenScad file (which I also uploaded as a standalone tool) to let you create detail
  • Get OpenScad app from: https://openscad.org/
  • Then simply import the new detail into Meshmixer (and then resize/move into place - before combining layers and exporting)
  • Get Meshmixer from: https://meshmixer.com/

Use same method (OpenScad and Meshmixer), to change the message along the frame (see sample photo where I added a custom Xmas message to my print)

Additional Credits:

With this model, one has the ability to customise the text, and the model has been set up so that with the use of Meshmixer (after learning some basic steps) it is easy to create a custom design (all the pieces are already in place in the model, and can be turned off/on, or new layers added). Using this approach it is customisable, by definition... but please note it cannot be wholly customised by use of just the customiser plugin (which only will pick up the text/image Scad file).

Print Settings

For multiple colours, need to add "Filament Change" script (if using 0.2mm layers, then it will need to be at layer 10). See https://all3dp.com/2/ender-3-change-filament-mid-print/

Don't worry too much about fine stringing when printing. A hot air gun breifly over the print at the end will tidy things up nicely.

 

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Model origin

The author remixed this model. Imported from Thingiverse.

Gingerbread House Kit Card
by Nakozen (thingiverse.com)
 

Differences of the remix compared to the original

Details now printable on the back of the house

  • I flipped the back of the house, so I could add details

Included a few custom detail bits for the back of house:

  • Christmas tree
  • Candy Canes
  • 2023
  • Bremen Musicians
  • This is a 'shout out' to Bremem - just because I'm living here at the moment and I love the place and the people

Added card kits with messages in various languages

I've also left everything pre-positioned in a Meshmixer .mix file

  • Just select the layers you want in browser window, make them visible, and "Combine", before exporting your custom gingerbread house to STL

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