Title: Port of the week: OpenSCAD | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 04 July 2016 | |
Tags: portoftheweek | |
Description: | |
OpenSCAD is a software for creating 3D objects like a programming | |
language, with the possibility to preview your creation. | |
I am personaly interested in 3D things, I have been playing with 3ds | |
Max and Blender for creating 3d objects but I never felt really | |
comfortable with them. I discovered pov-ray a few years ago which is | |
used to create rendered pictures instead of creating objects. Pov-ray | |
use its own "programming language" to describe the scene and make the | |
render. Now, I have a 3D printer and I would like to create things to | |
print, but I don't like the GUI stuff of Blender and Pov-ray don't | |
create objects, so... OpenSCAD ! This is the pov-ray of objects ! | |
Here is a simple example that create an empty box (difference of 2 | |
cubes) and a screw propeller: | |
height = 3; | |
depth = 6; | |
thickness = 0.2; | |
cube( [width,depth,height], true); | |
cube( [width-thickness, depth-thickness, height], true); | |
} | |
linear_extrude(twist = 400, height = height*2) | |
square(2,true); | |
The following picture is made from the code above: | |
![openscad][] | |
files. scad-mode will check the coloration/syntax and scad-preview | |
will create the OpenScad render inside a Emacs pane. Personaly, I use | |
OpenSCAD opened in some corner of the screen with option set to | |
render on file change, and I edit with emacs. Of course you can use | |
any editor, or the embedded editor which is a Scintilla one which is | |
pretty usable. | |
[OpenSCAD website](http://www.openscad.org/index.html) | |
[OpenSCAD gallery](http://www.openscad.org/gallery.html) | |
[openscad]: static/openscad-rendu.png "Openscad render picture" |