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Wow I’m so happy people are working on this. I love the program but Ive had to abandon several interesting ideas due to never rendering.

13of40 5y ago
Same here. I was experimenting with 3d printing stamps (like for ink) with flexible filament from 2-color raster images, and the render time just for that was about 15 or 20 minutes per step. I will definitely need to download this.
- tdeck 5y ago
  Complete aside, but I've actually found that printing stamps in plain PLA and then flattening them off with sandpaper on a flat surface provides better results than using flexible filament (TPU in my case).
- Symbiote 5y ago
  For this, you could also use the OpenSCAD plugin for Inkscape.
jandrese 5y ago
Yeah, I thought that rendering a 1000x1000 surface for a dimensional wall hanging should be no problem, but OpenSCAD gobbled up 16GB of memory and then crashed. I would also love for it to have a variable that rounds off corners to some diameter on the cubes, cylinders, and even polyhedrons. It's possible to round off corners using the intersection operator but it is a lot of work and something that I do in almost everything I build. Nobody likes unnecessary sharp corners.
- tdeck 5y ago
  I was looking for this recently and found a great OpenSCAD library called RoundAnything. It looks very productive: https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
- flyingcircus3 5y ago
  hull() is another operation that can make rounded corners. You can think of a rounded cube as the hull of 8 spheres. https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/openscad-tieing-it-together-with-hull/ https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/openscad-tieing-it-together-...
  - londons_explore 5y ago
    And hulls are insanely slow.
    - ur-whale 5y ago
      > And hulls are insanely slow. True, but they are usable for the use case described (create a rounded cube by hull-ing 8 small spheres or 4 small cyclinders).
  - mrfusion 5y ago
    Does Minkowski also do that?

13of40 5y ago

Same here. I was experimenting with 3d printing stamps (like for ink) with flexible filament from 2-color raster images, and the render time just for that was about 15 or 20 minutes per step. I will definitely need to download this.

tdeck 5y ago
Complete aside, but I've actually found that printing stamps in plain PLA and then flattening them off with sandpaper on a flat surface provides better results than using flexible filament (TPU in my case).
Symbiote 5y ago
For this, you could also use the OpenSCAD plugin for Inkscape.

jandrese 5y ago

Yeah, I thought that rendering a 1000x1000 surface for a dimensional wall hanging should be no problem, but OpenSCAD gobbled up 16GB of memory and then crashed. I would also love for it to have a variable that rounds off corners to some diameter on the cubes, cylinders, and even polyhedrons. It's possible to round off corners using the intersection operator but it is a lot of work and something that I do in almost everything I build. Nobody likes unnecessary sharp corners.

tdeck 5y ago
I was looking for this recently and found a great OpenSCAD library called RoundAnything. It looks very productive: https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
flyingcircus3 5y ago
hull() is another operation that can make rounded corners. You can think of a rounded cube as the hull of 8 spheres. https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/openscad-tieing-it-together-with-hull/ https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/openscad-tieing-it-together-...
- londons_explore 5y ago
  And hulls are insanely slow.
  - ur-whale 5y ago
    > And hulls are insanely slow. True, but they are usable for the use case described (create a rounded cube by hull-ing 8 small spheres or 4 small cyclinders).
- mrfusion 5y ago
  Does Minkowski also do that?