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OpenScad Revoloids version 0.6

by WilliamAAdams, published

OpenScad Revoloids version 0.6 by WilliamAAdams Jun 23, 2011

Description

Well, revoloids (slight change in name) are really nifty cool, easy to generate surfaces in a mathematical sense, but for them to be relevant to 3D printing, they need some volume.

This thing adds the ability to specify a thickness on your revoloid so that you can actually export as a .stl and print it.

I whimped out (and thus still not 1.0) and just used the normal of the circle to calculate the second quad. The actual normal is a cross between the tangent of the circle, and the tangent of the curve at that point. Next version.

I also want to come up with a nice scheme for printing flats for 'bottoms' and 'tops'.

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Instructions

1) Download the .scad files
2) Play with test_revolids.scad
3) Generate pretty pictures
4) Export to .stl
5) Print
6) Rejoice!

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