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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

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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

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3D part design with OpenSCAD #85: Bending an .stl file.

A method to curve a flat stl file around a round object.

By Bob 28 Mar 2024

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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

By Bob 24 Mar 2024

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3D part design with OpenSCAD #83: Bending text part 2.

Some improvements to the bend text module for OpenSCAD from the last post.

By Bob 23 Mar 2024

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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

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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

By Bob 15 Mar 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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&

By Bob 1 Mar 2024

3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD#76: Using the new Inkscape 1.3.x shape builder tool.

An example of how to use the shape builder tool to make objects to be 3d printed.

By Bob 19 Feb 2024

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3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #75: using guidelines for precise object positioning.

An example of how to use guidelines with Inkscape to precisely position objects.

By Bob 9 Feb 2024

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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

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3D part design with Inkscape and OpenSCAD #73: automating difference() with the customizer.

Being able to click a box and add or subtract an object from a project is pretty handy, and combined with the svg layer import

By Bob 26 Jan 2024