Hi all, I'm attempting create some semi-automated functionality in OpenSCAD. What I would like to do is be able to read in a table of positional, size and type (sphere etc) data created in another program and generate a single stl file containing said objects. My suspicion is that I might have to use python to get this to work, especially if I want to read in a csv or similar file to get the data, but I figured someone here might have a solution for a more native way to achieve this. I really appreciate any help you can give. Thanks, -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Creating-a-series-of-translated-primitives-from-table-matrix-tp17096.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Use an external program (eg written in Python) to convert the parameter table into an OpenSCAD script called 'parameters.scad' which contains a sequence of parameter definitions of the form name = value; Then use 'include <parameters.scad>' to read the parameters into another OpenSCAD script which then uses the parameters to generate the geometry. On 12 April 2016 at 20:37, wwatts <will@featherfab.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting create some semi-automated functionality in OpenSCAD. What I > would like to do is be able to read in a table of positional, size and type > (sphere etc) data created in another program and generate a single stl file > containing said objects. My suspicion is that I might have to use python to > get this to work, especially if I want to read in a csv or similar file to > get the data, but I figured someone here might have a solution for a more > native way to achieve this. I really appreciate any help you can give. > > Thanks, > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.openscad.org/Creating-a-series-of-translated-primitives-from-table-matrix-tp17096.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 > > >