Hi, I am currently designing a few woodworking proejects and wondered, if there is an existing woodworking library and if not, if I should start building one. Useful reusable objects for example could be a wooden board thats automatically retuning its dimensions, so it can be used for a material list; or a set of milling machine heads ( which could easily be used to add grooves etc with difference and linear extrude ) Or to rephrase the question: What does a library need to have, so it can be included in openscad? Greets J

I have a library like this, but it's far from generic and done for my own needs. But I do have parts defined, and get stuff like shopping lists (once again, tuned for my local suppliers), work tasks, time estimates and weight. I've made it part by part. Whenever I need a new part, I write a module for it. As I go, I need fewer and fewer new parts. It's not really that hard to do, and I really recommend doing it. -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/

I am currently doing it that way too, but my idea was to pool ressources ( and maybe get a list of best practices like including an "explode" parameter for higher level units like drawers)

I've been working through this sort of thing in projects such as: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/cnc-finger-joint-box/8880 under the name "Design into 3D": https://designinto3d.com/ some notes/links are at: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Design_into_3D and have collected some links/notes at: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/OpenSCAD#CNC_direct_interfaces The biggest problem which I'm trying to address is the matter of working up toolpaths (as opposed to relying on exporting an STL and using a 3rd party CAM tool) and representing arcs/curves without using polylines. William On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:10 AM <mailinglists-openscad-discuss@927589452.de> wrote: > I am currently doing it that way too, but my idea was to pool ressources > ( and maybe get a list of best practices like including an "explode" > parameter for higher level units like drawers) > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

There was also some previous discussion at: http://forum.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-and-Woodworking-td13966.html On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 9:26 AM William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com> wrote: > I've been working through this sort of thing in projects such as: > > https://community.carbide3d.com/t/cnc-finger-joint-box/8880 > > under the name "Design into 3D": https://designinto3d.com/ > > some notes/links are at: > https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Design_into_3D > > and have collected some links/notes at: > https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/OpenSCAD#CNC_direct_interfaces > > The biggest problem which I'm trying to address is the matter of working > up toolpaths (as opposed to relying on exporting an STL and using a 3rd > party CAM tool) and representing arcs/curves without using polylines. > > William > > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:10 AM < > mailinglists-openscad-discuss@927589452.de> wrote: > >> I am currently doing it that way too, but my idea was to pool ressources >> ( and maybe get a list of best practices like including an "explode" >> parameter for higher level units like drawers) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> >