Description
Intro to OpenSCAD is a 2 hour class (optional 2 hour workshop session afterwards) that introduces you to the world of OpenSCAD. Instead of dragging and dropping shapes, you write scripts to build them.
OpenSCAD is a Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) application used to create solid 3D CAD objects and 2D intersections suitable for laser cutting via a script-based approach rather than interactive visual modeling with a mouse. For this course we’ll write code that defines geometric primitives and transformations, allowing us to create parametric designs and engineering-type parts.
Over the course of the class, you’ll learn how to work the OpenSCAD environment, build 3D shapes from primitives like cubes and cylinders, move and transform them in space, combine and hollow them out using OpenSCAD functions.
Every physical objects around you – a phone case, a door handle, or a gear — are just a collection of simpler shapes combined in clever ways. This class teaches you to see that, and then do it yourself
And if you’ve got two more hours, stay for the workshop — you’ll walk out with a physical, miniature 3D print of something you built yourself.
Prerequisites: Some coding experience (any language) and basic arithmetic. No 3D modeling experience necessary.
What you’ll walk away with: A working OpenSCAD workflow, a foundation for 3D design, and a small 3D printed physical object you designed yourself.
