Exploring OpenSCAD Single Topic libraries

Now that we understand how OpenSCAD standard libraries can be utilized to improve our designs, let's look at what are called OpenSCAD Single Topic libraries. As their name implies, OpenSCAD Single Topic libraries are used for specific purposes, such as creating a threaded nut for a design. There are six libraries listed on the OpenSCAD website (http://openscad.org/libraries.html) under Single Topic. We will look at the four most relevant (for our purposes) libraries:

• Round Anything
• Mark's Enclosure Helper
• The OpenSCAD threads.scad module
• The OpenSCAD smooth primitives library

Let's start with the Round Anything library.

Round Anything

The motivation behind the Round Anything library is, as its name implies, to round parts. Standard OpenSCAD code lacks the functionality for rounding basic shapes. Installing this library provides a good tool to use in our designs.

For our example, however, we...