I just learned about #openscad recently. I'm loving it for several reasons. It's easy to just make something, the files are just text so easy to version control. Also, I really appreciate that you're writing code to describe what you want to render.

@sebi ah, noch ein #openscad fan. https://www.thetawelle.de/?p=8174

I’m getting better at #openscad ! Today I wrote a module to generate linear compression springs.

#3dprinting

#Emacs scad-mode + #OpenSCAD + automatic reload = such a blissful design/engineering experience! ❤️

(Just talking as a hobbyist, professionals will have a more powerful setup I guess.)

#MechanicalKeyboards

@ftg if you search for "zoetrope cubes" you'll find many more such sculptures.
Most of them have a relatively simple mathematical description, which makes it perfect to be modelled programs like #openscad
I've put some of the files online, if you're interested:
https://wiki.bloechligair.ch/doku.php?id=3dprint:strobo-tumbling-cubes

Mi pantalla para #hologramas en #Openscad #teatro #animacion

We have a lot of plants and therefore a lot of plant pots. However, the plant pot inserts from the garden center never really fit.

So I created a parametrizable plant pot inserts generator in #OpenSCAD for #3Dprinting 🪴

Available as #opensource : https://github.com/k0nze/plant_pot_insert_generator

After working on it for almost 9 months. I recently finished my hardest build yet. I've written a blog post about it. (Warning, long). Grab a cuppa and have a read.

#Making #MakersHour #Machining #WoodWork #3DPrinting #OpenSCAD

https://cetaceanneeded.com/a-kerfed-project.html

And now that i have been playing a bit with OpenSCAD i have remade my very first 3d model in OpenSCAD. The original i had made in FreeCAD.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2198480-ikea-silverglans-vittsjo-led-bar-h-clip-v2

Thanks @thomasflummer for the inspiration and tips!

#3dprinting #OpenSCAD

@FreeCAD my first 3d print of the year was done with #OpenSCAD (very similar to what @chrishuck wrote) -- mostly because changing last year's OpenSCAD script was easier than changing the FreeCAD file I also made last year, since it was done before the 1.0 release. (I compared the two methods and both work nicely.)

So just for the record: if I didn't know OpenSCAD, I could have made this using FreeCAD, too.

And this is pretty much the exception, I think over 95% of my 3d printing uses FreeCAD.

@chrishuck #OpenSCAD rocks!

CAD terminology - as someone self-taught, I didn't know half of this vocabulary. Happy learning #OpenSCAD right now.

https://youtube.com/shorts/phjLMKH4oak?si=gOHAomydJnKSg88x

Tried something interesting in #OpenSCAD. I wanted to see how easy it would be to model a coil using linear_extrude. It actually wasn't that bad, once I figured out how to generate the horizontal cross section. #3dDesign

I had a moderately nice model open in #FreeCAD to steal some dimensions for the #OpenSCAD thing I'm working on. It was an amusing sight: normally my OpenSCAD contains a pile-of-cubes sketch and my FreeCAD has the complicated model. But I want to do a bunch of experiment, where the OpenSCAD interface is a great fit. Also text is easier.

FWIW, there is a "new" (to me) OpenSCAD pattern for composable modules that include both positive and negative space which makes this really, really nice to write: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/5510#issuecomment-2557902853

Listen: #AI is just the latest #technology for giving instructions to machines. If creating an image using a prompt doesn't count as a creative process, then neither does programming.

I created this vase using nothing but #code I typed out into #OpenSCAD.

You can be just as lazy and unoriginal with your prompts as you can with any kind of writing. You can use a boring model or an interesting one. As lazy as you think it is, choosing a model and typing a prompt requires SOME creative thinking.

It appears that I didn't yet break anything, the big servo is working

Verdict: heavy (can be seen in some more wobble in high acceleration parts of a plot) but soooo quiet

I think that there should be a high frequency servo signal on one of the sets of pins somewhere that might make it move faster but on my 3rd party board I have no idea where that might be, I'll have to hunt around a bit

I really have to sort out the electronics though, I can see some #openSCAD in my afternoon

#penplotter

the way my Logitech BRIO 4K webcam is perched atop my Dell G3223Q monitor has irked me for too long!

so i whipped up a little adapter piece in #OpenSCAD and manifested it via #3DPrinting

https://www.printables.com/model/1535596-logitech-brio-4k-adapter-for-dell-g3223q-monitor

Assembly instructions for a 3d printed differential wrist... some minor edits to do, still. Volunteers will try to build it next week. Release after that :D
#3Dprinting #openscad

I've been planning on doing #penplotter brushless pen lift servo investigations for a while and it's nearly ready for a trial

This is a cheap(ish) full size brushless servo which would replace the coreless micro servo I already swapped over to a while back

It needs 8V though (not 5V) so I've also had to make a board to down convert the 12V supply. It also has to pass on the 12V to the driver board and pass through the servo control signal with the higher voltage supply

#3dprinting #openSCAD