3D Printing: Designing with openscad

[ozzloy]

this whole thing is so so neat! you made a really great openscad intro video. it's awesome that you already know programming and were able to take it up and apply it to making something for yourself so quickly! i'm so happy to have brought openscad to your attention!

[RadekSuski]

This is an awesome tutorial. Thanks a lot. As a long time software developer I had to say your excitement about programming kinda gave me a big smile.

[RobertBlow]

You have some great ideas on your homeschooling which will be relevant for them in the future. Keep thinking outside the box. Taking the printer to the Friday class sounds like a great idea which could instill a potentially lifelong interest in design and technology. I'm 47 and a pivotal point in my life was at 11 years old when I met my IT teacher which ignited a fire inside me which has not faded one bit in all the years and given me a career and a hobby. As a side note, I have a Prusa I3 which I have yet to unpack (I have had a couple of other printers over the last few years) and find your enthusiasm is inspiring me to look at things differently- like giving this coding a go. Take care and thanks...

[magnuswootton]

dropped straight into the 3d printer slicer! beautiful.

[MichealWeinfurtner]

That looks like fun to play with. Like how you can embed options for scale. Got something new to play with now...Yeah!

[cellularmitosis]

Thank you for being so thorough in your videos! I’m curious if you’ve heard of Gridfinity? Your paint bottle rack would make a great gridfinity module

[jarnold]

Good intro to openscad. Thanks for the video!

[kevinstroud]

Ive been using Openscad since i made my prusa mendel. Its can do an awful lot with practice.

[BasherOfficial-fdgn]

Wow.. This is good.. As a software programmer, i have always felt bored spending hours making a single model in blender and other mouse based CAD software...models not easily reused, moving the mouse, shortcuts, hidden OpenScad is like my way out

[csmcstrsshd]

Thanks for this intro! I've a good handle on where to start, now. Nice one :)

[robertlackey]

Great video ! I recently found out my old CF-30 running Linux Mint won't run Blender, so I was looking for a alternative, and for what I am doing this is perfect, It runs on Linux, I normally design in 2D on QCAD and only need a small percent in 3D, so I plan to use SCAD to take the design I have already perfected in QCAD and error check and turn it into a 3D STL file. I really like how you could use SCAD as a error checker.

you can put a # in front of an object to highlight it !

[RColbert]

Technically, STLs are also unitless. The slicer/viewer guesses at the units for you.

[magnuswootton]

I can hear planes in the background - go the air power!!! =)

[magnuswootton]

If you dont want it to go slow I think you put the for loops inside the difference, not the difference in the for loop.

[KenHackbarth]

There's a later version, further down the page, that supports the "Customizer" function.

[kevinstroud]

the paint holder would have been more elegant as the difference of two unions.

[linzenmeyer]

I see your reading list on the wall back "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman

[kevinstroud]

$fn = ???, used as a global slows things down heaps, using it for just the parts you need it on will speed things up.

[ozzloy]

you are pronouncing that right.

EDIT: "that" == "ozzloy"