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Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

You're reading from   Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD Design, build, and test OpenSCAD programs to bring your ideas to life using 3D printers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813174
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Dow Colin Dow
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring 3D Printing
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with 3D Printing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What Are Slicer Programs? 4. Chapter 3: Printing Our First Object 5. Part 2: Learning OpenSCAD
6. Chapter 4: Getting Started with OpenSCAD 7. Chapter 5: Using Advanced Operations of OpenSCAD 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Common OpenSCAD Libraries 9. Part 3: Projects
10. Chapter 7: Creating a 3D-Printed Name Badge 11. Chapter 8: Designing and Printing a Laptop Stand 12. Chapter 9: Designing and Printing a Model Rocket 13. Part 4: The Future
14. Chapter 10: The Future of 3D Printing and Design 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the BOSL to design a desk drawer

As mentioned in the previous section, there are shapes such as rounded boxes that we can create using the BOSL. We will design our desk drawer using these shapes from the BOSL.

We will start by downloading and installing the library.

Downloading and installing the BOSL

To download the BOSL, we do so from the OpenSCAD website. We then unzip, rename, and copy the contents into our OpenSCAD libraries folder.

To do so, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the OpenSCAD libraries web page using the following URL: http://www.openscad.org/libraries.html.
  2. Click on the Library link under BOSL. This will take us to the GitHub page for the BOSL.
  3. Click on the green Code drop-down button and select Download ZIP.
  4. Download and unzip the file. Observe that there is a folder called BOSL-master. Open this folder.
  5. Observe that there is a folder with the same name (BOSL-master) inside. Rename this folder BOSL.
  6. In OpenSCAD, click...
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