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Modelling a simple 3D object from code with OpenSCAD: a documentation reading
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What this guide covers
For anyone who wants a scripted route to a simple 3D object, for example a prop or a part for a render. It summarises what OpenSCAD's README and man page say about writing a script, rendering it, and exporting a model or an image from the command line. Documentation only; nothing was installed, run or rendered.
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Modelling a simple 3D object from code with OpenSCAD: a documentation reading
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For anyone who wants a scripted route to a simple 3D object, for example a prop or a part for a render. It summarises what OpenSCAD's README and man page say about writing a script, rendering it, and exporting a model or an image from the command line. Documentation only; nothing was installed, run or rendered.
Useful starting points
- The README says OpenSCAD is not an interactive modeler, so plan the object as shapes, set operations and moves before you start writing.
- The man page says it starts as a graphical program unless export options are given, so a script run from a terminal needs an export option.
- Image export has its own camera, projection and size options, and full rendering is not the default; the man page says preview is.
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