Some 3D printing purpose things
The project contains designs for various purposes. The parts are designed using a scripting language, processed by OpenSCAD. There is no ready to use 3D model files in the source code. If you are interested in such files, please look at the released versions which contains 3D model files built with default parameters. However, if you want to customize these parts, tailoring them with your measures, you should rather download the source code and then tweak the configuration files before generating your own 3D model files.
To properly use the project you first need to do some installations steps.
First of all you need OpenSCAD to be installed. To do so, please go to the OpenSCAD download page, an get the version suitable for your operating system.
The source code is hosted on a Git repository. To get it you can either download a zip file, or clone the repository locally.
Note: the easiest way is to call the init.sh script, that will take care of this for you.
The source code can be downloaded from the GitHub repository.
You can download it as zip file from this link.
As the project is using a shared library, that is not supplied with the package, you will need to also download it.
Download the zip file from this link.
Then extract its content inside the folder lib/camelSCAD. Please make sure the folder directly contains the library and not an intermediate folder like lib/camelSCAD/camelSCAD-master. If this is the case, please move the content one folder up and delete the extra folder.
A git tool is needed if you intend to get the source code from the git repository. You can download one either from the main git website, or from GitHub.
Once you have your git tool installed, open a console window, select a project folder (create it if needed), then run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/jsconan/things.git
cd things
git submodule init
git submodule update
The source code should have been downloaded, as well as the libraries.
Note: you can also use a graphical interface tool. In this case, please make it can also install the submodules.
The parts are all located into the parts folder. They can all be opened separately in OpenSCAD and rendered.
However, it is possible to render all parts in batch. The script render.sh takes care of this.
This is a command-line tool, which accept several parameters. By default, it will render the preset selected in the config.
It is possible to select another preset, as well as set a different number of cells for the containers.
The parameter -h make it show the help.
Running the command render.sh -h will show this message:
Renders OpenSCAD files
Usage:
./render.sh [command] [-h|--help] [-o|--option value] files
-h, --help Show this help
-d --dir Select a particular parts directory to render
-f --format Set the output format
-p --parallel Set the number of parallel processes
-c --clean Clean up the output folder before rendering
The STL files are rendered to the dist folder.