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VVVVCAD Constructive Solid Geometry

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elektromeier, Tuesday, Oct 14th 2014 Digg | Tweet | Delicious 11 comments  
m4d 14/10/2014 - 14:16

poly based csg? :)

kopffarben 14/10/2014 - 14:35

looks really usefull :)

elektromeier 14/10/2014 - 15:38

@m4d, its kinda baked down to polys, its possible to change the output mesh resolution... @kopffarben, yes it produces nice watertight meshes for 3d printing...

everyoneishappy 15/10/2014 - 02:29

Wow! Awesome... Was wondering about csg for a long time.

microdee 15/10/2014 - 02:35

woow! which library do you use? is it realtime? is it able to work with watertight arbitrary triangle meshes? wow again!

elektromeier 19/10/2014 - 14:00

ok before everybody get too excited, im using http://www.openscad.org
its a scripting language for doing cad that relies on the following to libraries: http://www.opencsg.org/ and https://www.cgal.org/
cgal is known for not being very fast (but quite accurate), so its far from being realtime.

the scripting syntax matches quite well with chaining node after node. i just pass strings from node to node and create up the script.

i tried also to use implicit cad (another scripted cad tool) which has some nice features like rounded edges with boolean mesh operations and should be faster than openscad, but i havent be able to compile it (its based on haskell).

anyways besides of the speed issues its quite usefull for generating parametric designs for 3d printing. the mesh output is very clean.

tonfilm 21/10/2014 - 21:13

impressive anyways!

m4d 21/10/2014 - 21:39

yeah :)

elektromeier 22/10/2014 - 14:22

thx, i will upload the patches, some examples and instructions soon.

nzo.nzo 05/02/2015 - 11:21

How I look forward!

mapbafuj 05/02/2020 - 15:08

I am interested in these elektromeier nodes. Does anyone know where i can find them? Thank you

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