Customizable Engraved Shopping Cart Tokens

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This thing has a customizer which creates "engraved" shopping cart tokens.
For the token, you can select from several pre-defined coins: loonie, one euro coin, two euro coin, British pound, Australian dollar, Canadian quarter, US quarter, or 10 Russian ruble. You can also specify the dimensions for any round (cylindrical) coin.
For the "engraved" image, you can select from 12 different silhouettes: atom, butterfly faces, cannabis leaf, cat, dog, flower, happy face, heart, maple leaf, Paw Patrol paw print, paw print, or shoppping cart.
There is only a single STL mesh included in this thing: a loonie with a maple leaf on both sides and with the initial layer height set to 0.18 mm and the layer height to 0.12 mm. For any other tokens you will need to run the customizer to generate it.
Using the Customizer
3D printers can't print half a layer, so for accurate token sizes, you must adjust the layer heights so that an integral number of layers add up to the height of the token. I usually print with a 0.20 mm initial layer height and 0.12 mm layer height for all other layers, but for the tokens I adjusted the initial layer height as in the following table. Whatever heights you decide to use, you need to set them in both the customizer and your slicer. These heights are not set automatically for the pre-defined coins. You must set them in the customizer to the values you want.
Token | Initial layer | Other layers | Token height
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One euro | 0.17 mm | 18 x 0.12 mm | 2.33 mm
Two euro | 0.16 mm | 17 x 0.12 mm | 2.20 mm
British pound | 0.16 mm | 22 x 0.12 mm | 2.80 mm
Canadian loonie | 0.18 mm | 15 x 0.12 mm | 1.98 mm
Canadian quarter | 0.14 mm | 12 x 0.12 mm | 1.58 mm
US quarter | 0.19 mm | 13 x 0.12 mm | 1.75 mm
Australian dollar | 0.12 mm | 24 x 0.12 mm | 3.00 mm
Russian ten ruble | 0.16 mm | 17 x 0.12 mm | 2.20 mm
By default there is only a single engraved layer on the top. For any tokens that you create, if you don't define the layer heights so that an integral number of layers will be sliced to create a full height token, you may have to set the number of engraved layers to 2 for the top engraving to be sliced. If you slice the token and don't see the engraving on the top layer, either adjust your layer heights or generate a new token with 2 engraved layers.
If you want a token with no engraved image, just set the layer heights in the customizer to 0.01 mm. The engraving will still be in the generated token, but the height of the engraving will be too small to be sliced (unless you're slicing with a layer height of 0.01 mm or less).