What do you mean exactly by new points and contact face?
You can calculate pretty much any shape with OpenScad but you would have to
render one piece at a time and export them separately if you want them to be
separate objects that touch each other or intersect each other. There is no
physical reality to objects that intersect or share a common boundary.
You could calculate the rectangle where the cubes touch by overlapping them
slightly and doing the intersection and then projecting that to 2D. The
contact face isn't a 3D solid because it has no thickness. OpenScad can only
represent 3D solids or 2D shapes, not a 2D square floating in 3D space. That
is why you would need to overlap to get a valid 3D intersection with an
arbitrary thickness that you can then flatten to 2D.
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What do you mean exactly by new points and contact face?
You can calculate pretty much any shape with OpenScad but you would have to
render one piece at a time and export them separately if you want them to be
separate objects that touch each other or intersect each other. There is no
physical reality to objects that intersect or share a common boundary.
You could calculate the rectangle where the cubes touch by overlapping them
slightly and doing the intersection and then projecting that to 2D. The
contact face isn't a 3D solid because it has no thickness. OpenScad can only
represent 3D solids or 2D shapes, not a 2D square floating in 3D space. That
is why you would need to overlap to get a valid 3D intersection with an
arbitrary thickness that you can then flatten to 2D.
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View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/How-to-disable-merging-touched-objects-tp11255p11277.html
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