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CAD operations like chamfer, etc.

Open dumblob opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

I'm new to SDF modeling and can't see any easy way to make chamfers or alike using ImplicitCAD. Anyone would help?

dumblob avatar Apr 17 '20 14:04 dumblob

Fillets are easier than chamfers... You can specify a rounding value when you intersect or difference two shapes. I'm not sure if you can be precise about the radius of that fillet -- it's a smoothing function, not a tangential cylinder.

There are several projects trying to expand on the capabilities of OpenSCAD (which is not technically, what ImplicitCAD set out for, but is one of the reasons people end up here). One of them started life as OpenSCAD2, but now it's called curv (or curv3d), and he has plans for some complex seaming capabilities. Whether it works better or worse for you than ImplicitCAD is probably dependent on your needs and preferences. Just wanted to toss it out there. I switch between all of these programs 'coz they all have their own very cool features...

Digital-Monk avatar Apr 17 '20 21:04 Digital-Monk