3d Printed 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #89: making 3d printed canisters for mosaic pattern Damascus steel An example of how to make a 3d printed shell to use in making mosaic pattern Damascus steel By Bob 28 Apr 2024
3d Printed 3d part design with OpenSCAD #88: Reverse engineering an STL file part 2 When I made post #41 there were a bunch of loose ends I wanted to tighten up and features I wanted to add so I By Bob 26 Apr 2024
3d Printed 3d Part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #87: Customizable sluicebox part 2 Part 2 of a customizable sluice box designed with Inkscape and OpenSCAD By Bob 21 Apr 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #86: Adding a pinwheel option to the universal propeller module. Adding a pinwheel option to the universal propeller module makes some cool looking designs By Bob 20 Apr 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #84: Bending an SVG file. Making a custom object with Inkscape to use with the "bend" OpenSCAD code from my last post works great, here is the modified code: /*[Bend By Bob 24 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #82: bending text around a cylinder. And example of how to bend text around a cylinder in OpenSCAD. By Bob 22 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #81: Designing custom bellows. If you are trying to make bellows or a speaker cone here is an easy way to do that. I'm using the function plotter to By Bob 15 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #80: Using roof() to make a beveled stencil After making the beveled text module I was experimenting with using the same technique on a stencil to see if it would improve the print By Bob 10 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD # 79: Adding shell to the tapered text module. Since I can make letters as large as my printer will allow I thought it would be useful to make them hollow so I could By Bob 4 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #78: Easy tapered 3d text using roof() An example of how to use roof() to make tapered 3d text. By Bob 2 Mar 2024
3D Printing 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #77: More with the shape builder tool and checking dimensions before 3d printing. In the last post I used the shape builder tool in Inkscape to do some basic addition and subtraction of objects, in this post I'm By Bob 1 Mar 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #74: adding fillet and chamfer to the SVG import modules. An example of how to add fillet and chamfer capabilities to an SVG layer that was imported into OpenSCAD. By Bob 27 Jan 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #72: A fully customizable sluice box (part 1) A cutomizable design for a 3d printed sluice box made with OpenSCAD. By Bob 21 Jan 2024
3d Printed 3d part design with OpenScad #71: Using hull and spheres to make a slinky and improve the thread module. I was experimenting with using a sphere for the thread module to see what the results looked like and it works really well, the rendering By Bob 13 Jan 2024
3d Printed 3D part design with OpenSCAD #70: coiled tube module. A simple example of how to make a coiled tube with OpenScad that can be 3d printed. By Bob 10 Dec 2023