Signature Plastics SS profile?

[jwhendy]

I was looking through this post by user jacobolus which is quite intriguing. It notes that the now-retired SS profile from Signature Plastics matches a tilted/shortened SA profile, with the hypothesis that SA was designed for tilted switch stems. Thus, SS would be the proper recreation of this profile for straight stems. SA shown in red hatch:

I have never seen SS nor SA in person; if the SS profile is indeed quasi-identical to SA at the top, I wondered if the modification could be done to the SA keycaps here: rotate, chop off flush to the horizontal plane, and adjust the switch mounts accordingly. I have not ever used openscad, but maybe could try this (I'm an R/python user, so perhaps I could learn) and issue a PR if I'm successful and you're interested?

[mrebersv]

You're going to need to get the correct angles in order to do this.

Easy mode is to copy KeyV2/src/key_profiles/sa.scad and modify it for ss. Plop your new ss.scad into the same key_profiles/ directory. Change module sa_row(... to module ss_row(... on line one. Then, in the if {} block at the bottom, just change the $top_tilt values for each row to match what they should be for your SS profile. If they're too tall/short, you would adjust that with the $total_depth value for each row.

[mrebersv]

Similar to the silhouette measuring method we were talking about in a different issue, you could use an image program to measure the new angles to get them. I'm sure they'd be too close for anyone to notice the difference, even if they've been typing on SS for 20 years.