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Tealight Shade Generator

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Your image is the shadow you want on the table, seen from above — black is light, white is dark. A sample also sets the pattern settings it was drawn for.

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Rounds cutout corners. Even 0 leaves a slight chamfer. If fine detail is disappearing, raise the resolution — lowering this will not bring it back.

shade geometry
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Openings at the base let air reach the candle — a starved tealight smokes and goes out. Set to 0 only for an LED tealight.

led tealight
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Measure your tealight: LED tip height is from its bottom to the top of the flame bulb. In Shade mode it sits upside down on the top rim, bulb hanging inside.

Open flame: print in PETG, or use an LED tealight. PLA starts softening around 60 °C.

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