Designing with OpenSCAD
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Designing with OpenSCAD

A Young Lady's First Enchiridion

About the Book

About the Author

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 - About OpenSCAD
    • Letter to Readers 3/29/15
    • Opening up possibilities
    • Why use code to model?
  • Chapter 2 - What are we building?
  • Chapter 3: The Quick Start
    • Download OpenSCAD
    • Setup OpenSCAD
    • Dipping your toe in OpenSCAD
    • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Starter Kit
    • Download the project
    • Inside the project
    • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Modeling the Engine
    • Measuring the engine
    • Modeling the engine
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 6: Building the nose cone
    • Creating the nose cone
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 7: Fitting the nose cone to engine
    • Adding a tolerance
    • Positioning the engine
    • Cutout the engine slot
    • Inner dome in cone
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 8: Modules - Refactoring the engine as a module
    • Engine as a basic module
    • Why use modules?
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 9: Modules - Refactoring parabolic cone as parametric module
    • Parabolic cone as a module
    • Separating different levels of abstraction
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 10: Modules - Modules that change its children
    • Using resize for tolerance
    • Making the with_tol() module
    • Making the chop() module
    • Summary
    • Full Source
  • Chapter 11 - Defining top-level assemblies
    • Defining the top-level nose assembly
    • Defining the top level part module
    • Summary
    • Full Source

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