Creating a Captive Sphere with OpenSCAD
21mBeginner2015-04-15
Authors
Steve Caplin
Author, Freelance Photoshop Artist
Course details
OpenSCAD is a free, multiplatform 3D CAD program that's ideal for producing models that are going to be 3D printed. Unlike most other modeling apps, in OpenSCAD you design objects using text instructions alone. Sounds scary? Don't worry. In this introductory lesson Steve Caplin takes you through the basics and shows you how to create a captive sphere model—using just 10 lines of code—and make the object printable.
Skills covered
OpenSCAD3D ModelingProjectVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationOpen Source
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- Downloading OpenSCAD
Building a Captive Sphere
- Setting up the view
- Making the initial cube
- Centering the cube
- Adding a sphere
- Increasing the resolution
- Subtracting the sphere from the cube
- Adding a second sphere
Make the Object Printable
- Viewing the base
- Creating a second cube
- Subtracting the cube from the sphere
- Reducing the cube
- Exporting the object
Conclusion
- The final printed object