On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Werner Almesberger <wer...@almesberger.net> wrote: > I made an experimental design that only used solids for a somewhat > realistic object (a keycap/button) and compared how well OpenSCAD > and Cadmium handled the task. > > The question wasn't only which is "better" but I also wanted to > see whether I liked the general design approach and workflow. > > Both succeeded, but had a hard time with the fillets and chamfers. > Cadmium turned out to be rather slow while OpenSCAD exhibited > stability problems and the mesh it produced appears to have some > defects. > > The CSG-only approach is probably also too limiting for this kind > of design, so I'll try extrusion next. > > Pictures: > http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/cad/test1/scad.png > http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/cad/test1/cadmium.png > > More details can be found here: > http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/wernermisc/source/tree/master/cad/test1/README > > - Werner
This is great werner! Yes, there hasn't been a good free solid modeling program like solidworks that is free software yet... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolidWorks http://www.solidworks.com/ Jon -- Jon Phillips http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
