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#OPENSCAD LETTERS MANUAL#
#OPENSCAD LETTERS FULL#
#OPENSCAD LETTERS CODE#

The seventh bead is a small version of a bead I made in an earlier (as yet unpublished) project.

The cube (bead 6) is a hull built around eight small spheres at the corners. If you compile all seven beads at once, it will take longer than three minutes.

#OPENSCAD LETTERS MANUAL#

The manual tells us, "The acronym CGAL refers to The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library." Research that on your own. Total rendering time: 0 hours, 2 minutes, 53 seconds". OpenSCAD reports, "CGAL cache size in bytes: 96508080 The revised spiral bead still takes time to compile, almost three minutes. Reading some threads of the OpenSCAD mailing list, it appears that CPU and memory demand are a recognized issue with the rendering code. for me, it was an issue of compilation speed more than anything else. It results in slightly sharper edges at the ends of each bead, but. Instead, I redesigned the spirals to use a simpler rotated extrusion of a circle. It might be that the computer would complete the compile in an hour or more, but I wasn't willing to wait. After five solid minutes of seeing my CPU pegged at 25% (full use of one of the CPU cores), the compile progress bar shows zero progress. It uses more "expensive" code.Įxpensive relates to the demand on the computer's CPU and memory.

#OPENSCAD LETTERS FULL#

To make an exportable version, though, a full compile and render are needed (F6 key).

#OPENSCAD LETTERS CODE#

The preview (F5 key) is generated by some quick-running code in OpenSCAD. Everything was fine while I did my preview testing. The outer loop shifts the next and next loops around the bead. The spirals were based on code from the expanding, live, online manual. My first attempt used a small sphere with nested for() loops to make several spiral segments run up the sides of a cylinder. I’ll rotate the logo 90° counter-clockwise for symmetry, eventually.Bead number five was the most "trouble".

I redid the Glowforge logo in DXF before reading that newer dev releases of OpenSCAD support SVG importing, so I’ll probably eventually switch back to the Glowforge-provided SVG file.

(Did I mention the code can generate rulers of any length?)

Why inches is larger than the metric scale: You hit double-digits pretty quickly with centimeters, so it was more an aesthetic choice for space concerns of longer rulers.

My rational is that it’s easier to use as an upside down ruler than it is to do the conversion maths.

That was intentional, because I’m always converting millimeters to inches, and it’s a handy reference. I can swap in a more basic font like Comic Sans, if needed. It’s 1:1 the nodes from the actual TrueType font.

The large number of nodes in numerals is out of my control, unfortunately.

The (red) cut layer also had to be changed from grey+black to no fill+red line.

The (green) engrave layer actually exports as grey fill + black line, I have to manually change it in Inkscape to green fill + no line.

I had to run some parts of my code for the cut layer, and run another part of code for the engrave layer – exporting each respective output as two SVGs – and recombine them in Inkscape by hand.

OpenSCAD currently doesn’t support line colors for SVG exports.

So something I should mention about this SVG I attached, versus the actual output from OpenSCAD…