Summary

In this chapter, we introduced external libraries to our designs. We were able to use the BOSL to design a desk drawer that slides on sliders under our desk. We also explored many of the libraries available from the OpenSCAD website, noting the design inspirations and strengths of the libraries.

We were able to then take the code written for our desk drawer design and implement it as an OpenSCAD library. As we saw, doing this greatly simplifies future designs. It allows us to design something rather complex by breaking it down into separate components.

With this chapter, we come to the end of the second part of this book, Learning OpenSCAD, where we explored OpenSCAD from basic to more complex concepts. We will use this knowledge in the third part of this book, Projects, as we use OpenSCAD to design and then bring our designs to life through 3D printing.