Month: June 2020

  • OpenSCAD – Basic Bearing – Sketched?

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    As far as practice excersizes go a basic bearing is a great one to learn basic concpets on OpenSCAD. This tutorial takes a differenct approach and uses the 2d Subsystem…

  • OpenSCAD – Basic Bearing

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    Not the standard approach to a Bearing this model begins with 2D Representations of each race component and uses rotate_extrude to build up the 3D Body. Sometimes, if we know…

  • Basic Flat Tooth Gear

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    This short tutorial will help you create a basic gear in OpenSCAD. The gear will need two cylinders to create the gear and a 3 sided polygon to create the…

  • OpenSCAD – Create a pipe.

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    This simple Tutorial will walk you through the process of making a cylindrical pipe. In this Tutorial you will only need two commands: cylinder(); difference(); Bebgin by creating a new…

  • preview()

    The children of the preview command will only be shown during Preview ( F5 ) and not Render ( F6 )

  • use ;

    Makes the contents of a library available to the current script. If you have a model that is a basic shape that you would like to utilize in other models…

  • Toy Brick Model

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    A Model for the Popular Lego Brand Building Brick. This Model includes Customizer text for the lettering on the surface of the bricks. You can simply copy this text into…

  • OpenJSCAD

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    OpenJSCAD is an opensource software similar to OpenSCAd in many ways, but not compatable. The OpenSCAD user will find it fairy easy to pick up OpenJSCAD. The main difference is…

  • BlocksCAD

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    BlocksCAD is an Open Source, Web based CAD programming tool. It’s underlying syntax is based on OpenSCAD. You can find details about BlocksCAD at thier website: https://www.blockscad3d.com/ Try out the…

  • echo

    The echo command writes information to the OpenSCAD console panel. This information can be values and variables used within the script. The output is useful in debugging an understanding script…