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  • Cylindrical Text the Easy Way

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    Whereas I love math, I do not excel in the knowledge of said math or patience. So like many of us lesser skilled math enthusiasts I tend to look for…

  • text() – text command tutorial

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    As of OpenSCAD 2019 text has gotten a lot easier to add in OpenSCAD. Basic text can be added with just the bare Command: text( “Basic Text” ); This command…

  • 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…