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with points, place the cutouts on the points, and finally do a SDiff operation to make the cutouts.
The biggest problem is the SDiff operation. For the above part it took about 30 minutes to run on my 3 GHz system. There is a whole other discussion here about how GH uses CPU resources; the bottom line is everything GH does is single threaded, so high-powered CPU (like my i7) doesn't help speed things up.
I'm not sure how you would generate 3D versions of calligraphic objects in GH, but perhaps you have a way to do this. All you need is the 2D outline of course.
I printed the part (several versions of it actually) using PLA. That's a standard material for 3D printing and the results came out pretty well. The part is a difficult one to print because of the way 3D printers work - the need to stop and start each extruded loop of plastic makes the edges of the cutouts less sharp than ideal. Injection molding would produce much better results, but regular people don't have access to that technology.
I see that I forgot to post links to the STL file for printing this part. Here they are:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1626234
https://pinshape.com/items/22581-3d-printed-pockedlamp3…