Round anything - Retrospective rounding/filleting module
Hi All,
I wrote this module last week and it is what I think is an incredibly
powerful module that will allow you to fillet any OpenSCAD models
retrospectively while keeping the original dimensions. Models don't need to
be designed again with rounded cubes etc, just throw minkowskiRound() out
the front of it and your good to go. But I can't help but thinking that
surely someone has done this before? I figured this is the best place to
ask!?.
Biggest downside is that it is very computationally intensive, needs low $fn
unless you are willing to wait a long time (12 hours plus).
Github page here https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
Thingiverse page also https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2419664
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You aren't the first person to discover these techniques (they are easy to
find using google), but the way that you have packaged them in a module is
very nice. Thanks for posting this.
You might be able to get rid of the envelopeCube argument. Take a look at
this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/5u96tj/how_can_i_set_a_fillet_in_the_edges_of_this_shape/
PS, The copyright notice in MinkowskiRound.scad says LGPL 2.1+ but the
LICENSE file says GPL 3.
On 9 July 2017 at 06:36, irevdev irevdev@protonmail.ch wrote:
Hi All,
I wrote this module last week and it is what I think is an incredibly
powerful module that will allow you to fillet any OpenSCAD models
retrospectively while keeping the original dimensions. Models don't need to
be designed again with rounded cubes etc, just throw minkowskiRound() out
the front of it and your good to go. But I can't help but thinking that
surely someone has done this before? I figured this is the best place to
ask!?.
Biggest downside is that it is very computationally intensive, needs low
$fn
unless you are willing to wait a long time (12 hours plus).
Github page here https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
Thingiverse page also https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2419664
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The strategy you use is similar to the one applied to round 2D polygons:
module round_external(r) offset(r) offset(-r) children();
module round_internal(r) offset(-r) offset(r) children();
It would be valuable to define a 3Doffset as the base tool for roundings.
3Doffset may have it own applications besides filleting.
I am working now in a fast operator (module) that builds the bounding box
of an object. It may well exempt the need to specify the envelopeCube.
2017-07-09 7:36 GMT-03:00 irevdev irevdev@protonmail.ch:
Hi All,
I wrote this module last week and it is what I think is an incredibly
powerful module that will allow you to fillet any OpenSCAD models
retrospectively while keeping the original dimensions. Models don't need to
be designed again with rounded cubes etc, just throw minkowskiRound() out
the front of it and your good to go. But I can't help but thinking that
surely someone has done this before? I figured this is the best place to
ask!?.
Biggest downside is that it is very computationally intensive, needs low
$fn
unless you are willing to wait a long time (12 hours plus).
Github page here https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything
Thingiverse page also https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2419664
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Ronaldo wrote
I am working now in a fast operator (module) that builds the bounding box
of an object. It may well exempt the need to specify the envelopeCube.
Have you seen the second example here
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Commented_Example_Projects
?
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2017-07-09 23:54 GMT-03:00 MichaelAtOz oz.at.michael@gmail.com:
Ronaldo wrote
I am working now in a fast operator (module) that builds the bounding box
of an object. It may well exempt the need to specify the envelopeCube.
Have you seen the second example here
<https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/
Commented_Example_Projects>
?
I was not aware of that. Thank you to drive my attention to it.
Interesting approach although it fails in some simple cases like:
module P() { translate([500,100,10]) cube(20); translate([600,100,50])
cube(30); }
%BoundingBox() P();
P();
I use a different one: projection and linear_extrude, yes, but minkowski
instead intersection. As the minkowski operations are just on blocks (like
cubes), they are fast enough.
I will publish it here after polishing and testing enough. It is a shame
that we cannot do minkowski mixing 1D, 2D and 3D objects. Many things would
be easier then.
Thanks Doug for pointing out the license discrepancy, I made it LGPL 2.1
originally because I was planning on trying to get it pulled into the MCAD
library, but that project seems kind of dead so changed it to my preference
GPL. Fixed now.
I had a look at the reddit post and that's more or less how I had the module
originally but I added he envelope cube because it allowed me to remove
excess minkowski() calls. i.e. the reddit code only does outside radius's
and uses 3 minkowski() calls where as my minkowskiOutsideRound() module only
uses two. I understand that differencing it with a giant cube is not very
elegant but I'm happy with it since it saves time (I did test this and it
was quicker).
Exactly Ronaldo, it was that 2d rounding method that got me thinking about
this, and a 3Doffset that was nicer to my computer than
minkowski(){children; sphere} would be great. Both for this rounding
application but I would appreciate it for adding tolerances by differencing
a two parts with one slightly expanded. Bounding box is a good idea, I'll
look into it (though feel free to make a pull request).
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Here is my version of an operator that computes the bounding box of a model.
Its concept is simple: hull() the projection of the model on each axis (1D
sets) and minkowski() them. As there is no way to define a 1D set in
OpenSCAD, the projections are aproximated by a stick whose length is the
size of the projection.
// offset may be either undef, a number or a vector of 3 numbers
module bbox(offset=0) {
// a 3D approximation of the projection of children on X axis
module xProjection()
translate([0,1/2,-1/2])
linear_extrude(1)
hull()
projection()
rotate([90,0,0])
linear_extrude(1)
projection() children();
module bbx() // a bounding box with an offset of 1 in all axis
minkowski() {
xProjection() children();
rotate(-90)
xProjection() rotate(90) children();
rotate([0,-90,0])
xProjection() rotate([0,90,0]) children();
}
// compute the offset of children (a cube) in the 3 axis
module offset(offs)
if(max(offs)>0) union() {
children();
translate(offs) children();
translate(-offs) children();
}
else intersection() {
children();
translate(offs) children();
translate(-offs) children();
}
offs = len(offset)==3 ? offset - [1,1,1] :
offset==undef ? -[1,1,1] :
(offset-1)*[1,1,1];
offset([offs[0],0,0])
offset([0,offs[1],0])
offset([0,0,offs[2]])
bbx() children();
}
The following image shows the bounding box (transparent) of a red model and
the projections on the axis in blue.
http://forum.openscad.org/file/n21820/bbox.png
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