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It was fun, but I still appreciate what our mechanical designers can do.
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OpenSCAD works natively with triangle meshes. sphere() will create a spherical triangle mesh. These libraries on the other hand can natively represent a sphere for instance. This means that during CAD-ing you don't need to worry about resolution, that's a consideration for export only.
Do you mean that OpenScad performs boolean/other operations on triangle meshes, but these libraries don't until output? So they might instead use curved surfaces/edges etc as outputs for operations and only convert to triangles for output or export at the very end?
Any serious manufacturing will work require a STEP (or something equivalent) which stores these parametric surfaces rather than a mesh.
Big fan overall. Designed a tension sensitive winch with this a few years back. Doing CAD with code seems like obviously the right move to me. The ability to just write new functions in python and do version control with git are super powerful. The big thing that struck me as innovative with CadQuery is the design intent query part. Selecting model geometry by relation to other geometry is way more resilient to chang…
Would it limit and hold a maximum force? Slip beyond a certain limit?
Here's an example! I recently used their sister library (build123d, same devs) to build a rotary slide rule bracelet for multiplying three-digit numbers. It was a great experience and wouldn't generally be easy to do with Fusion 360. My bracelet gets quite a lot of comments when I wear it in public. :-) Here's an IPython notebook with lots of pictures so you can see how the different operations come together: https:/…
Now that there is:
my hope is that this effort will begin to coalesce and focus on that tool/environment, and that further effort will be made to improve it.
Here's an example! I recently used their sister library (build123d, same devs) to build a rotary slide rule bracelet for multiplying three-digit numbers. It was a great experience and wouldn't generally be easy to do with Fusion 360. My bracelet gets quite a lot of comments when I wear it in public. :-) Here's an IPython notebook with lots of pictures so you can see how the different operations come together: https:/…
https://paulfremantleluthier.substack.com/p/gibsons-tuners-v...
It’s not as beginner-friendly as GUI tools, but for automation, reproducibility, and generating families of parts, it feels way more scalable. Curious how others here are using CadQuery in real workflows—production or mostly prototyping?
Here's an example! I recently used their sister library (build123d, same devs) to build a rotary slide rule bracelet for multiplying three-digit numbers. It was a great experience and wouldn't generally be easy to do with Fusion 360. My bracelet gets quite a lot of comments when I wear it in public. :-) Here's an IPython notebook with lots of pictures so you can see how the different operations come together: https:/…
Thanks for this! It's really fun. My older kid now has a vanilla sliderule bracelet. The younger is getting a smaller bracelet of the same design, but with dragons on it :-)
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Thanks for this! It's really fun. My older kid now has a vanilla sliderule bracelet. The younger is getting a smaller bracelet of the same design, but with dragons on it :-)
Ah so cute!! I’d love to see pictures of your changes if you care to show them :-)
Happy to share source if you like, but it was nothing complicated: - ask aistudio.google.com to draw a bunch of dragons - trace one to svg - make the bracelet a little smaller