Also, built in customizer in thingiverse.
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Thank you sooo much man.
There's other ways to make it from scratch too, so if you're interested in that sort of thing, there's some good YouTube tutorials on it.
If you like to print stuff a lot, it's nice to be able to design some simple stuff yourself.
"sweeping text". An example here: https://www.printables.com/model/33019-sweeping-2-line-name-plate-text
Looks like a revolve operation applied to some text in cad software...
About 2:50 into the video. Link in the description for the files that you can modify.
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