By way of background, some of the limitations which were being worked through were:
- OpenSCAD only being able to describe closed regions
- said closed regions needing to be separated by location for want of any other option
Since then, three things have happened:
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Carbide Create has gained a facility for associating a toolpath with the contents of a layer, allowing one to make template .c2d files
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DXF import in Carbide Create was markedly improved:
Build 839
New
All-new DXF parser that handles less-popular parts of the DXF format better.
including importing the layer associations.
- in my own project using Open(Python)SCAD, I have worked up a mechanism for describing tool motion and writing out DXF files which may be unclosed:
including colour-coding and assigning to layers.
So, if someone will let me know:
- what dimensions they wish to use when making a box
- what features the want for it to have (e.g., lid treatment)
- what stock/part thickness
I’ll gladly work up a files for making same.