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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813174

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

G-code

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

3D Printing

Author (1):

Colin Dow

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Exploring the OpenSCAD General libraries

The General libraries in OpenSCAD includes the BOSL, dotSCAD, NopSCADlib, and BOLTS libraries. Implementing these libraries allows us to add things such as threaded rods, modeled parts (parts that are not 3D-printed but are used in designs), and mathematically complex shapes. The following section includes a short breakdown of each of these libraries.

BOSL

The Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL) consists of operations to create shapes such as rounded boxes and threaded rods. Operations to enhance OpenSCAD's translate and rotate operations are also included in the BOSL.

In Figure 6.1, we can see a threaded rod created using the BOSL:

Figure 6.1 – A threaded rod created with the BOSL

We will be exploring the BOSL in more detail in the upcoming Using the BOSL to design a desk drawer section.

dotSCAD

The dotSCAD library aims to reduce mathematical complexity when using OpenSCAD. We can utilize dotSCAD...

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Authors (1)

Colin Dow

Colin Dow

Colin Dow has been involved with technology since the early home computers caught his eye. He has worked as a programmer/analyst at some of Canada's biggest companies. He is the author of the Packt books Internet of Things Programming Projects (2018), Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT, and Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD. When he's not nerding out on programming or 3D printing, he likes to compose electronic music, which can be found on Spotify under the name Project Josephine.

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