Open source parametric 3D modelling software
Mitch Davis
I recently stumbled across these pages:
http://openscad.org/
http://blog.cloudscad.com/
Is it interactive in the Sketchup sense? No. Is it for CAD rather
than pretty pictures? Yes. It's a markup language for 3D, like HTML
is to web pages, or TeX is to documents.
Mitch.
Stuart Young
I wouldn't say it's a markup language. More of a programming language for 3D CAD objects. At least one person is working on getting Openscad to call functions defined in python too, which looks interesting.
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Stuart Young (aka Cefiar)
Stuart Young
Oh also, if you want an interactive Open-source CAD program, there is Heekscad.
http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/
Not quite finished, but it's generally usable.
Mitch Davis
> On 28 August 2010 11:07, Mitch Davis <m...@afork.com> wrote:
>
> I've been playing around with Openscad
Cool as! How would you feel about giving a demo at hackerspace?
Mitch.
Bryan Bishop
> Is it interactive in the Sketchup sense? No. Is it for CAD rather
> than pretty pictures? Yes. It's a markup language for 3D, like HTML
> is to web pages, or TeX is to documents.
Sort of, except OpenSCAD isn't compatible with CAD. It just exports to
STL, which is basically a pretty (3D) picture. But other than that,
yeah.
Bryan Bishop
> I wouldn't say it's a markup language. More of a programming language for 3D
> CAD objects. At least one person is working on getting Openscad to call
> functions defined in python too, which looks interesting.
Do you know who that is? Can you look that up? I've been trying to
follow development and don't know anyone doing that.
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Bryan Bishop
>
> Oh also, if you want an interactive Open-source CAD program, there is
> Heekscad.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/
>
> Not quite finished, but it's generally usable.
Sorry for the rapid emails, but I got tired of linking people to that
long link, so I registered and configured heekscad.org to do my evil
bidding for me- just a simpler way to spread the love :-). Enjoy.
Stuart Young
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Stuart Young <cef...@gmail.com> wrote:Do you know who that is? Can you look that up? I've been trying to
> I wouldn't say it's a markup language. More of a programming language for 3D
> CAD objects. At least one person is working on getting Openscad to call
> functions defined in python too, which looks interesting.
follow development and don't know anyone doing that.
See http://rocklinux.net/pipermail/openscad/2010-August/000573.html for his first attempt at a patch.
From what I understand, the idea is that the python outputs openscad code to generate the object.
Some of the other development like Cloudscad (which requires changes in Openscad to allow cli calling of Openscad to generate files), is being done by Tony Buser.
See http://tonybuser.com/cloudscad for more info.
Mitch: As long as I can get a computer that can run it, no probs. My little Asus isn't really a good choice cos it'll be slow rendering objects. I could possibly drag my desktop down though. FWIW: I made the designs that produced the aluminium cam that Lunar Numbat have. Very simple, but it definitely did the job.
PS: Tried to go to http://heekscad.org, but it just brought up a blank page for me. :/
Bryan Bishop
> The person who has started on code is Owen Taylor:
>
> See http://rocklinux.net/pipermail/openscad/2010-August/000573.html for his
> first attempt at a patch.
Thank you. I must have missed this.
> From what I understand, the idea is that the python outputs openscad code to
> generate the object.
Okay. I thought it was maybe a wrapper around CGAL.
> PS: Tried to go to http://heekscad.org, but it just brought up a blank page
> for me. :/
Fixed. I don't know why it wasn't working in the first place. :-(
Stuart Young
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Stuart Young <cef...@gmail.com> wrote:Thank you. I must have missed this.
> The person who has started on code is Owen Taylor:
>
> See http://rocklinux.net/pipermail/openscad/2010-August/000573.html for his
> first attempt at a patch.
Okay. I thought it was maybe a wrapper around CGAL.
> From what I understand, the idea is that the python outputs openscad code to
> generate the object.
From what I understand it's a 'first implementation' and I think that there is consideration of doing just that. It'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
Fixed. I don't know why it wasn't working in the first place. :-(
So I guess the next question is, what's your affiliation with Heekscad?
Bryan Bishop
>> > PS: Tried to go to http://heekscad.org, but it just brought up a blank
>> > page
>> > for me. :/
>>
>> Fixed. I don't know why it wasn't working in the first place. :-(
>
> So I guess the next question is, what's your affiliation with Heekscad?
Resident member of the peanut gallery? I don't know. I watch the
development closely and mess around with OpenCASCADE/pythonOCC from
time to time. I got tired of linking people to the longer URL that I
can't remember, so I just use heekscad.org now for a simple redirect.
Meh.