Technical Modeling with OpenSCAD

Chapter 1 • Why OpenSCAD?
	1.1 What do we need?
	1.2 Who am I?
Chapter 2 • Installing OpenSCAD
	2.1 Installing OpenSCAD: Linux, compiled package
	2.2 Installing OpenSCAD: Linux, compilation.
	2.3 Installing OpenSCAD: Windows, finished binary
	2.4 Excursus: Nightlies
	2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 • User interface and first experiments.
	3.1 OpenSCAD start screen
	3.2 Manipulating the Viewport
	3.3 More Settings
	3.4 Conclusion
Chapter 4 • Create, combine and move 3D objects
	4.1 Hands hovering over the building surface
	4.2 Create cuboids: data types and more.
	4.3 Sphere and cylinder
	4.4 Translation operators move objects
	4.5 Rotation operators rotate objects
	4.6 Color parts of objects
	4.7 Linking translation and rotation
	4.8 Combine 3D objects smartly
	4.9 Outlook: Realisations, polyhedra, and projections
Chapter 5 • Realize and understand (round) objects
	5.1 Edges and corners
	5.2 Antipattern: Construct with $fn
	5.3 Excursus: 3D print pipeline
	5.4 3D printing models
	5.5 Holes, for the first
	5.6 Conclusion
Chapter 6 • OpenSCAD as 2D modelling tool.
	6.1 Theory of construction in the two-dimensional domain
	6.2 Creating Ellipses
	6.3 Linear extrusion
	6.4 Worked Example: Coat rack a la Tam
	6.5 linear_extrude with advanced parameterization
	6.6 Create rotationally symmetrical objects
	6.7 Fully parametric construction from point clouds
	6.7 Holes in polygons
	6.8 Worked Example: Board holder
	6.9 What next?
Chapter 7 • OpenSCAD as a dynamically reconfigurable modeling system
	7.1 Variable in OpenSCAD
	7.2 Modules create geometry
	7.3 Selections react to parameter states
	7.4 Selections, modules, children
	7.5 Reject parameters with Assert
	7.6 Duplicate geometry with "for
	7.7 Functions and calculations
	7.8 Processing lists
	7.9 Tools for troubleshooting
	7.10 Conclusion
Chapter 8 • Texts, projections and bump mapping
	8.1 Render texts
	8.2 A question of alignment
	8.3 Add and manage fonts
	8.4 Exporting 2D Snapshots
	8.5 Import geometry item maps
	8.6 Conclusion
Chapter 9 • Advanced 3D objects
	9.1 Create three-dimensional polygons
	9.2 Excursus: Soap Dispenser, Part 1
	9.3 Polygon alignment in three-dimensional space
	9.4 Combination with Minkowski
	9.5 Effect of the Minkowski operator on boreholes
	9.6 Excursus: Soap dispenser, part 2
	9.7 The Hull operator
	9.8 Conclusion
Chapter 10 • MCAD - technical primitives for OpenSCAD
	10.1 Providing the library
	10.2 Generation of gears, analysis of the library structure.
	10.3 Conjuring screws and nuts
	10.4 Lego emulation
	10.5 Generate outlines of stepper motors
	10.6 Conclusion
Chapter 11 • Value-added OpenSCAD
	11.1 Model to measure
	11.2 Controls of the Customizer
	11.3 Custom model, second
	11.4 OpenSCAD without App
	11.5 OpenSCAD meets Python
	11.6 Conclusion
Appendix A • Quo vadis?
	Contact the development team
	Contact the author
	Read more
Index