OpenSCAD listed on Thingiverse's Jumpstart <http://www.thingiverse.com/jumpstart> Customizer is running 2015.03 (latest) [ref] <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/thingiverse/88CVLy0andc> . So text() etc are available. ----- Newly minted Admin - PM me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/In-case-you-missed-it-tp13811.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Ahem...Quoting Jumpstart "Every model that OpenSCAD exports will be a high quality, solid, watertight STL file that can be understood by 3D printer software like MakerBot Desktop or other model slicers. Unlike programs like Sculptris, OpenSCAD was written specifically to create 3D printable models, and therefore it never exports bad or broken geometry."... ----- Newly minted Admin - PM me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/In-case-you-missed-it-tp13811p13812.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Lol.. reminds me of the old saying "Never say never..." As far as I understand it, in theory the math model behind CGAL can guarantee "non broken" geometry... (google for "regularized set operations", very rough description is that it guarantees that if you start with two water-tight objects, and perform an operation like union or difference, the result will be a watertight object, which should propagate through the entire object tree resulting in a water-tight overall model) http://www.slideshare.net/hitesh915/presentation7-23624280 http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Nef_3/index.html#sectoinRegularized But as I understand it, the theory gets a little messed up somewhere in the thousands of lines of code in CGAL, OpenSCAD, binary floating point conversion, re-conversion, ASCII decimal floating point conversion, gcode, etc. -- don bright hmbright@fastmail.fm On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, at 10:40 PM, MichaelAtOz wrote: > Ahem...Quoting Jumpstart "Every model that OpenSCAD exports will be a > high > quality, solid, watertight STL file that can be understood by 3D printer > software like MakerBot Desktop or other model slicers. Unlike programs > like > Sculptris, OpenSCAD was written specifically to create 3D printable > models, > and therefore it never exports bad or broken geometry."... > > > > ----- > Newly minted Admin - PM me if you need anything, or if I've done > something stupid... > > Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the > Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all > copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously > inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. > > The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! > http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.openscad.org/In-case-you-missed-it-tp13811p13812.html > Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org

It works very well for me and I'm duly impressed. But you have to manage the Delta overlaps between volumes when performing any boolean op as adjacency is indeterminate. IMHO this is where most people come unstuck making printable objects. Another reason I love the # operator :) (and Wings3D :)) -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/In-case-you-missed-it-tp13811p13837.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.