![]() ![]() I’m sure others will have useful and helpful suggestions as well, as I can at least testify that the OpenSCAD community and its developers are by far the most welcoming, non-critical, helpful and patient bunch of folks probably on the whole planet. In short, I would say there’s just no substitute for doing lots of coding… always bearing in mind that regardless of what you’ve done, there’s probably a better smarter way of doing it that you may stumble across later.Īnyway, its always great to see someone else finding value in the OpenSCAD platform, for me, it is the parameterization that makes it the sole choice among modelling programs. I guess I would suggest that you set about writing routines that use every single function and module so that you develop a working knowledge of what they can do, and then their use will occur to you naturally when you cast about for how to solve your newest design challenge. I know that I’d love to use some bezier curves in my designs, but from the little bit of investigation I’ve done in that area, looking at other people’s code and examples, it looks like the housekeeping requirements for keeping values alive and useful through transformations is beyond my ability to juggle more than on thing at a time. And wouldn’t it be neat to have some deformation routines, like “push this sphere into this cube”. (For exampleI think we’d all love to have a way to extract the current point set at any point in our program… but as I understand it just isn’t possible. There’s also getting enough familiarity with OpenSCAD to develop an instinctive feel for what it can’t do… and others have experienced that too, so that every year or so you’ll see someone from the community innocently asking, “Can’t this feature be added to OpenSCAD” only to find that same feature was asked for a couple of years earlier and abandoned because it just can’t be accomplished with the way OpenSCAD interacts with it’s code base of other 3rd part modules. The extensible nature of OpenSCAD where you can even replace all the existing modules with redefinition has left me with a rather extensive collection of routines in libraries of my own authorship, which means that my code doesn’t usually play well with others. I have tried using the odd library, but once I figure out how a routine works I usually just rewrite it. Then on the other hand, my personal experience is that life is just too short to make much use of minkowski() cause even though it's cool it can just take too staggeringly long to render some things so that I opt for a less sophisticated design rather than invoke the monster. My mastery of geometry is pathetic, so when I first examined mulmatrix() I gave it a wide berth, but if you want to sheer an object then there’s really no replacement (I say that somewhat embarrassed because in the early days I spent far too much time rotating cubes and slicing off sides :)) so even though I was loathe to climb the learning curve on that module, I eventually succeeded. ![]() If you’re lazy like me, you never really want to abandon the simple solutions and code flows you’ve mastered if they’ll do, but I’ve found it’s always useful to have the “Cheat Sheet” open in front of me, so that I’m always aware of options in functionality that I may not have tried yet. “How would I do that in OpenSCAD” and then setting about to make it happen. Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here.I can only offer my own experience with OpenSCAD which I’ve been using for about 4 years, and to say that my knowledge and facility with OpenSCAD is driven primarily by the challenge of the final design. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9). Setting up libqt5scintilla2-l10n (2.9.1+dfsg-4build1). Libopencsg1v5 libqt5scintilla2-12v5 libqt5scintilla2-l10n openscad The following NEW packages will be installed: Meshlab geomview librecad openscad-testing Libopencsg1v5 libqt5scintilla2-12v5 libqt5scintilla2-l10n Libboost-program-options1.58.0 libboost-regex1.58.0 libboost-thread1.58.0 libcgal11v5 The following additional packages will be installed: Install the openscad application run the following command. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. W: The repository ' xenial InRelease' is not signed. W: GPG error: xenial InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 176F9F68AD382CA4 Let's first start with updating the system repositories.
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