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I kind of fell out of love with openscad. I couldn’t find a workflow that didn’t involve tweaking x/y/z and width height etc parameters all the damn time. If an
by le-mark 2y ago
I kind of fell out of love with openscad. I couldn’t find a workflow that didn’t involve tweaking x/y/z and width height etc parameters all the damn time. If anyone has any tips about workflow I’d love to hear them.
- tombert 2y agoI found that I didn't really do that once I forced myself to avoid hard-coding numbers entirely. If I only defined variables, and defined variables in terms of other variables, I almost never had to do lots of x-y-z shifting. Not sure what your workflow is or what you're building so of course what you're doing might be more complicated than what I did, or not lend itself to that, but I've managed to avoid headaches like that.
- hexane360 2y agoThis plus make a lot of sketches describing what each variable is physically, and use geometry to derive dependent dimensions. Libraries like BOSL2 help with placement/attachment of features: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2 https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
- WillAdams 2y agoMy current effort is to use the new Python-enabled fork: https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ so as to model how a tool cuts: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview