Braille Maker For Blender

Multiline Braille Indenter Tool for Blender

Grade 1 Braille Indent Tool for 2mm Balls

https://ko-fi.com/professordaytime

https://sethgordon3.gumroad.com/l/braille-indenter

https://github.com/ProfessorDaytime/MultilineBrailleIndenter

You can, make copies of this blend file and start in it, but

You can also just keep this blend file somewhere safe and append 

the geometry nodes to whatever project you're working on.

Tho I created this in Blender 4.4.3, so it won't work in Older Versions.

It seemed to work in 5.0 just fine.

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--Append to Project------------------------

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Go to File > Append

Then Find this blend file "MultiLineBrailleIndenter.blend"

Go into Node Tree

Select Braille_Indenting and Append

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--How to Use-------------------------------

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Once Appended, go to the Modifier Tab on the object you

want to indent braille into

Add Modifier > Geometry Nodes

Click the Dropdown next to New and choose Braille Indenting

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-Parameters-

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Position 

    Set the Z value to the Z height of the surface you want indented

    

Rotation

    You probably would rotate it on the Z axis the most

    

Number of Lines

    Set for number of lines 1 - 10

Text

    This is Grade 1 Braille, I programmed 26 letters and 10 symbols

        ^ for Capital Letter symbol

        # for the braille number indicator 

        

    The other 8 symbols are

    ! ; : ' , . ? -

    I haven't tested the limit of text, 

    but the more text, the slower blender will run.

    

Dot Diameter

    2.3 is the best/smallest fit for a 2mm metal ball

    that I found through testing

    

Indent Depth

    The braille should be between 0.6 and 0.9 mm off the surface.

    I found with Indent Depth set to 1.23 gives a 

    consistent 0.7 - 0.8 mm braille bumps

    

Dot Spacing

    I have yet to have someone that reads braille test these,

    so I Eye-balled these exact default settings to match something

    else I've printed

    

    But I have set the standard ranges as the min and max values

    for all of the spacing parameters

    

Cell Spacing

    I feel like all of the spacing parameters should be adjusted

    if any of them are adjusted

    

Line Spacing

    Range is 10.0 - 10.2, so I just put it in the middle by default

    

    

More Text

    Set the Number of Lines parameter to show or hide lines.

    

    

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--NOTES-----

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I have not tested the limits yet, but it should be able to handle

at least 2 instances on a surface.

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