Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
My Minkowski dog is misbehaving! I said "Sit!" Bad dog!
Why there's no parameter to scale back to original size?
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX,$BraceBoxWidthY,$BraceBoxDepthZ]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
Cut his back legs and it will sit.
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX-2,$BraceBoxWidthY-2,$BraceBoxDepthZ-2]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as
original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
There is but it is very slow, see
https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib#Round
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 14:16, Ronaldo Persiano rcmpersiano@gmail.com wrote:
Cut his back legs and it will sit.
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX-2,$BraceBoxWidthY-2,$BraceBoxDepthZ-2]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
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I'm not sure what you were expecting: minkowski() performs a certain
mathematical operation, which by it's very nature can only make things grow
larger.
For your application you could just make the cube smaller, as already
suggested. I have done entire designs undersized by r and then added
minkowski at the end with a radius r ball to do the final rounding. This
may be the best way to use minkowski for rounding in situations where it
works.
You can make a rounded cube in a variety of different ways. For example,
convex hull of 8 spheres.
But if you had some larger aims and really wanted to use minkowski to round
something complex it can, in theory, be done. You need to be very patient.
(And when I tried it OpenSCAD crashed.) But the method below works by
making a huge cube, subtracting your model from it, and running minkowski on
that to shrink your model. You can then expand it using minkowski() and it
ends up at the starting size. If you want inside and outside rounding it
requires 3 calls to minkowski (though the snippet example uses 4). If you
want just outside rounding "only" two calls to minkowski() are needed.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Tips_and_Tricks#Filleting_objects
https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
tobject wrote
Why there's no parameter to scale back to original size?
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as
original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX,$BraceBoxWidthY,$BraceBoxDepthZ]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
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You might enjoy the attached modules where I had the same problems.... If
you do, please feel free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution
licence - cite our work and let us know if you build upon it please!
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
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-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of GZ
Sent: 04 July 2019 14:05
To: discuss@lists.openscad.org
Subject: [OpenSCAD] Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
My Minkowski dog is misbehaving! I said "Sit!" Bad dog!
Why there's no parameter to scale back to original size?
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as
original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX,$BraceBoxWidthY,$BraceBoxDepthZ]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
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Can you tell I hastily tacked on the licensing bit?
Try this version of the modules file instead...
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
. Project management
. Operations & Process improvement
. 3D Printing
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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Alex
Gibson
Sent: 04 July 2019 18:33
To: 'OpenSCAD general discussion'
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
You might enjoy the attached modules where I had the same problems.... If
you do, please feel free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution
licence - cite our work and let us know if you build upon it please!
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
. Project management
. Operations & Process improvement
. 3D Printing
-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of GZ
Sent: 04 July 2019 14:05
To: discuss@lists.openscad.org
Subject: [OpenSCAD] Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
My Minkowski dog is misbehaving! I said "Sit!" Bad dog!
Why there's no parameter to scale back to original size?
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as
original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX,$BraceBoxWidthY,$BraceBoxDepthZ]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
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I dun have the box and ball modules but the easiest way of doing this
is is adding a fudge factor and putting the same number as the sphere
diameter.
fud=2;
translate([fud/2,fud/2,fud/2])
minkowski() {
cube([$BraceBoxWidthX-fud,$BraceBoxWidthY-fud,$BraceBoxDepthZ-fud]);
sphere(d=2,$fn=100);
}
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On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 11:05 AM Alex Gibson alex@alexgibson.net wrote:
Can you tell I hastily tacked on the licensing bit?
Try this version of the modules file instead...
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
. Project management
. Operations & Process improvement
. 3D Printing
-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Alex
Gibson
Sent: 04 July 2019 18:33
To: 'OpenSCAD general discussion'
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
You might enjoy the attached modules where I had the same problems.... If
you do, please feel free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution
licence - cite our work and let us know if you build upon it please!
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
. Project management
. Operations & Process improvement
. 3D Printing
-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of GZ
Sent: 04 July 2019 14:05
To: discuss@lists.openscad.org
Subject: [OpenSCAD] Bad dog Minkowski! scale back!
My Minkowski dog is misbehaving! I said "Sit!" Bad dog!
Why there's no parameter to scale back to original size?
I want to do round corners for my box but to keep the size the same as
original.
Is there an elegant way to do it?
minkowski() {
box([$BraceBoxWidthX,$BraceBoxWidthY,$BraceBoxDepthZ]);
ball(d=2,h=2,$fn=100);
}
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