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Following the yearly tradition of starting late with our advent calendar, the first day of #scadvent brings a little candle holder. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #Advent #AdventCalendar
The docker tags 'dev' and 'trixie' of the openscad/openscad image are now also available for riscv64 in addition to amd64 and arm64. The images continue to be updated weekly. hub.docker.com/r/openscad/o... #docker #openscad #riscv
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The dev-snapshot #docker images of #OpenSCAD are now based on Debian 13 (Trixie) when using the "dev" tag. The bookworm based images are still around with tag "bookworm", but currently amd64 only. The arm64 images will be back soon, once a build issue is resolved. hub.docker.com/r/openscad/o...
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New book by Roberto Hamm published (in French): Ça, c’est #OpenSCAD openscad.org/documentatio... #3dprinting #books
After a long time of battle testing, we’ve now made the Manifold backend in #OpenSCAD the default. This means that all new users of the development snapshot will, starting with the next nightly build, experience significantly faster rendering. #3dprinting #floss
Due to this topic coming up recently, we'll have a look at how #OpenSCAD supports typographic features some modern fonts have. A list of features can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... along with a short description of what they do.
![A screenshot of the OpenSCAD GUI, the 3D view showing a simple rectangular open box. The more interesting part is the code editor though. It shows a couple of lines of python code, implying the box was not produced from a normal scad script but from this python code.
The actual code shown is:
from openscad import *
c1 = cube([10, 20, 11], center = True)
c2 = cube([8, 18, 12], center = True)
box = c1 - (c2 + [0, 0, 2])
box.rotate([0, 0, 40]).show()](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4zhash6sou74lxhugw25yhdp/bafkreiaj3zfaw4cmeogq6elzbfnzddfjcwwblvmlp7bsobvixgx4bvmbqu)
3D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generator - calbryant.uk/blog/3d-prin... #OpenSCAD #3dprinting
3D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generator
Automating the processes of splitting up large 3D prints into smaller parts with dovetail joins
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New #OpenSCAD library added to the list at openscad.org/libraries.ht... (License: CC0). #foss #floss #3dprinting
Over the last couple of month, people have been working on extending #OpenSCAD to finally support color for the rendered 3D meshes. not just in preview. The base of all this is the new geometry engine Manifold, so this needs to be selected in Preferences.
Starting a bit late, as always, but here is #SCADvent again. The #OpenSCAD advent calendar is different this time, it's the "Tutorial Edition". We'll try to bring 15 lessons starting at the very basics but hopefully also showing some interesting things later. openscad.org/advent-calen... #Advent
OpenSCAD Advent Calendar 2024
#SCADvent
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