Side note: manifold supports this as well as other operations (e.g. smoothing, sdf) that are not yet exposed to openscad. I wonder if people will be interested in adding those operations to openscad later. On Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 12:55 AM Steve Lelievre via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > > On 2024-08-14 7:19 a.m., Guenther Sohler via Discuss wrote: > > looks similar to this one ... > > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/pythonscad/comments/1cug84c/new_function_to_wrap_objects_around_a_cylinder/ > > > > > For sure. Lots of ways of doing it, but I guess my underlying thought > was that the "export to STL - convert - reimport as polyhedron data" > method is fairly general and doable for people who aren't very techie, > and can apply to situations besides the one I asked about in my original > post. > > > > > ps: no external tool needed > > > PythonSCAD is a fork, isn't it? So to the average OpenSCAD user like me, > it is a separate tool that has to be installed and learned. I've been > told python doesn't have much of a learning curve but it is something > new to contend with. Still, I realize that I'm going to become a python > user one day, and I hope you will be able to merge it back into the > original OpenSCAD sooner rather than later. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >