Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius rounding
to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of the
skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com
[image: maybeSkin.png]
You don't include an example or the error. When I constructed one the
error was that the side faces are not coplanar. The second sentence of
the rounded_prism docs does state this requirement. You might be able to
add a rounded cap on each end of your skin output using offset_sweep to
make a rounding.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM Joe Weinpert via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius rounding
to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of the
skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com
[image: maybeSkin.png]
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Yes. That was the error I was referring to.
Your recommendation then is to figure out how to use that offset_sweep
command to put a rounding on the top and bottom of the vnf object which was
built with the "skin" command, yes?
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 5:56 PM Adrian Mariano via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
You don't include an example or the error. When I constructed one the
error was that the side faces are not coplanar. The second sentence of
the rounded_prism docs does state this requirement. You might be able to
add a rounded cap on each end of your skin output using offset_sweep to
make a rounding.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM Joe Weinpert via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius
rounding to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of the
skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com
[image: maybeSkin.png]
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Yeah, you would use offset_sweep twice for the top and bottom of the skin
object. I did a quick test:
up(2.5)
offset_sweep(botBot,h=.5,top=os_circle(r=.5));
and you get the result below. To get it really nice looking you'll need a
custom profile that better matches the slope of your shape, with a smaller
rounding arc.
[image: image.png]
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 7:48 PM Joe Weinpert via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Yes. That was the error I was referring to.
Your recommendation then is to figure out how to use that offset_sweep
command to put a rounding on the top and bottom of the vnf object which was
built with the "skin" command, yes?
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 5:56 PM Adrian Mariano via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
You don't include an example or the error. When I constructed one the
error was that the side faces are not coplanar. The second sentence of
the rounded_prism docs does state this requirement. You might be able to
add a rounded cap on each end of your skin output using offset_sweep to
make a rounding.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM Joe Weinpert via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL
library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius
rounding to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of
the skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com
[image: maybeSkin.png]
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I found something on thingiverse some years ago wrt rounding top and
bottom edges. Modified by Kevin Gravier -
https://www.thingiverse.com/mrkmg/about - Originally from:
https://github.com/OskarLinde/scad-utils/blob/master/morphology.scad.
There was a minor error in the code, but it works good enough for 3d
printing.
On 23/08/2024 22:40, Joe Weinpert via Discuss wrote:
Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius
rounding to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of
the skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com http://skidrowacademy.com
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fyi, it's a 1.6 mb file so cannot post it here
[image: Screenshot 2024-08-25 at 7.30.11 AM.png]
On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 at 03:11, Joe Weinpert via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Thought I would step out of Vectric Aspire to find another manner in
creating STL files.
Here is something I have started with using OpenSCAD and the BOSL library.
Attached is the .scad file I used for this.
I am trying to figure out how I can integrate or add a .25 radius rounding
to both the top and bottom.
Using the "fast_distance" method in skin() gave me exactly what I was
looking for. to start with (see the pic).
Then I attempted to utilize the rounded_prism() function in place of the
skin() function but came up with errors all the time.
Any ideas?
Joe Weinpert
joe.weinpert@gmail.com
skidrowacademy.com
[image: maybeSkin.png]
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