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3D part design with OpenSCAD #129: adding some features to the "hollowout" module

In post #94 : 3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #94: Using minkowski() to hollow out complex shapes.I recently set out to design a

By Bob 15 Jun 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD # 128: OpenSCAD autotrace part 2, cleaning up the trace.

The auto trace module from the last post works really well but requires some clean up and here is an easy way to do that.

By Bob 25 May 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD#127: Autotrace with OpenSCAD

You actually can use OpenSCAD to "auto trace" .png images, and with some fine tuning the results are not bad and are similar

By Bob 24 May 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #126 : experimenting with fresnel lens design.

A while back I made a module for concentric rings and it reminded me of a fresnel lens, so I added a few customizations to

By Bob 18 May 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD#125: multiple export files from a single design.

In the last two posts I covered an easy way to split large files into multiple parts with an svg file so they could be

By Bob 26 Apr 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #124: More details on making "cut" SVGs with Inkscape

I try to keep my posts as simple as possible so anyone with any amount of experience with the software can follow the code and

By Bob 20 Apr 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD#123: Unlimited stl cutter and splice joints any shape you can imagine.

Slicing an stl file that is too big for your printer can be done with many slicing programs but I wanted a way to make

By Bob 18 Apr 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #122: Textured text.

After a quick search I didn't see many options for adding a texture to the surface of text so I made one. This

By Bob 13 Apr 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #121: Electronics enclosure helper.

Lining up the holes for different ports on an enclosure can be tedious, here is a helper program made with OpenSCAD that helps to align

By Bob 6 Apr 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #120: Transparency trick

Sometimes it's helpful to "see into" your design to align objects or make sure they overlap properly, and while you can

By Bob 31 Mar 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #119: Adding a few more features to the text outliner code.

After experimenting with the text outliner I wanted to add some things like selecting the color from a drop down list, being able to make

By Bob 21 Mar 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #118: Text outliner.

Sometimes it's nice to have outlined text for making signs with letters that really stand out, I didn't see any that

By Bob 20 Mar 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD #117: Color Picker

If you ever need to select a large number of names from a list OpenSCAD has an easy way to do this. Here is a

By Bob 22 Feb 2025

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD # 116: Getting bounding box information from multiple objects.

When you import multiple objects into OpenSCAD there is an easy way to get the individual bounding box information for each object by simply showing

By Bob 15 Feb 2025

3D part design with OpenSCAD#115 : Auto center an stl file.

A few days ago I saw a post by krysus on reddit that showed a really neat way to automatically center an stl: Any protip

By Bob 6 Feb 2025