Hiya Folks…

Im doing some automation generating OpenSCAD files and I wanted to have my output .png objects colored based upon a value of another parameter…  In my simplistic dream world, I would do like below and put the logic in the .scad file. I could also try and deal with another step in my templating where I output the “myvar” variable directly, but I would prefer not to for various reasons if it is indeed possible in .scad.

The ‘_myvar’ parameter may have values of 1, 2 and 3 for example…

Im trying to do something like below, but I clearly have scope issues and Im confused…  Is there a way to accomplish this concept or am I barking up an empty tree?

_color = “black”;
if (_myvar == 1) _color = “red”;
else if (_myvar == 2) _color=”green”;
else if (_myvar == 3) _color = “blue”;

color(_color) cube();

NOTE: in this simple example, I would just put the ‘color(_color) cube()’ into the if/elseif blocks, but of course, in the real world, that is much more complex rendering so it doesn’t fit well inside of a large if/elseif tree.

Thank you…. Jess

I would use array syntax, like this:

myvar = 1;
color_ = ["red", "green", "black"];
color(color_[myvar]) cube();

or if you want to use a more general conditional scheme, you can use the
conditional operator:

myvar = 1;
color_ = myvar==1?"red":myvar==2?"green": "black";
color(color_) cube();

The rule is: There are only constants in OpenSCAD. You can define, but not
alter the value of a constant.

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Thank you Doug and Rudolf... that was exactly what I was missing!

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I would use array syntax, like this:

myvar = 1;
color_ = ["red", "green", "black"];
color(color_[myvar]) cube();

or if you want to use a more general conditional scheme, you can use the conditional operator:

myvar = 1;
color_ = myvar==1?"red":myvar==2?"green": "black";
color(color_) cube();

The rule is: There are only constants in OpenSCAD. You can define, but not alter the value of a constant.

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