/* This creates a twisted extrusion of 5 unioned circles
* with gratuitous amounts of rounding. Try it out! */
linear_extrude (height = 40, twist(h) = 35*cos(h*2*pi/60))
union ( r = 8) {
circle (10);
translate ([22,0]) circle (10);
translate ([0,22]) circle (10);
translate ([-22,0]) circle (10);
translate ([0,-22]) circle (10);
}
Try out this code!
With the explosion of 3D printing, designing 3D objects has become an even more important problem. And it's a complicated one. We need to design complicated objects that precisely interface with each other. And often we don't want to just design a single object, but classes of objects, parameterized by variables. And we need to do this in collaboration.
There are trivial cases, like a screw driver of varying length or the width of a table. Traditional geometric constraints can suffice here. But what if we want a key based of a list of numbers describing the heights of a lock's pins? Now we need programming.
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