Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at. If you can get a 3D object out of this, go back to the dxf file and refine the plate part and the nozzle part using commands like copy, fillet, etc.

OpenSCAD gives you that option by reading a point from the intersection of two lines in the dxf (QCAD / LibreCad) file. You have now probably found out that it is handy to define an origin. Then draw a trapezoid for the nozzle, and rotate-extrude that into OpenSCAD as well.

So model the plate as a rectangle, and extrude that into OpenSCAD. One of the advantages of CAD is that you can edit the files. If the lines in a corner do not exactly end at the same point, OpenSCAD will not see it as part of an outline.īecause of the learning curve, I would suggest to start simple. It helps if you give the different layers a different colour, so you can see what's on which layer.Īlso, take notice of the snap options. In relation to OpenSCAD, every outline or dimension you want to use should be on a separate layer in the QCAD / LibreCad file. This is quite a bit of a learning curve if you are not familiar with 2D CAD. I usually draw an outline that I can extrude or rotate into a 3D object and do that in a few dimensions so I can do boolean operations with them. I use the combination of LibreCad (QCAD fork) and OpenSCAD a lot.

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