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- Sdf – Generate 3D meshes based on SDFs
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FreeCAD User Book (2019)
I used to like OpenSCAD for its simple approach but then I discovered SDF-based modelling with Python made possible with this neat library: [1]. This is perfect if you are a programmer that doesn't know anything about CAD-Software.
1.: https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
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CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d
>these the the central core that understands BREP and implements the geometric operations.
I've seen people quote a good modern CAD kernal as a 100 man year project. It's probably not going to happen, maybe there's some avenue for government funding?
Alternatively Signed-Distance-Functions are pretty nice. They're not BREP, but they're a lot easier to implement, and it might be possible to shove them into a BREP-shaped hole.
Here's a signed-distance-function based CAD kernal written in a few thousand lines of python+numpy, that seems to be about as fast as openscad. Maybe faster. https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
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Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
Excellent. You might be interested in a Python library that I wrote for generating 3D meshes (STL files) from SDFs : https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
It just uses marching cubes for triangulation but the SDFs are all numpy'd and the SDF is evaluated in batches on multiple threads so it's relatively fast.
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Plot of triangle mesh with py5
I used the SDF repo by Michael Fogleman. Check out his website, there's a ton of useful stuff on there. He contributes a lot to the open source community and has been mentioned in r/PlotterArt before.
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10 ways to get the best out of OpenSCAD
Try out fogleman/sdf[1]. It is like OpenSCAD in many ways but the distance field model gives you offsets and fillets more easily.
[1] https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
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Is it possible to 3d print signed distance functions?
https://github.com/fogleman/sdf this python project can create mesh from sdf
- Curated Code CAD
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Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
> https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
Holy crap, why have I not seen this before?!?!!? I was even planning to start coding something like this myself. This is awesome!
- I am planning on creating a programming language for my Informatics Bachelor Thesis. What are your ideas for such a project?
truck
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Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities
I agree 100%.
Truck[1] and Fornjot[2] are recent attempts in the Rust space, both are WIP.
But both seem to be going the traditional way. I.e. B-Rep that can be converted to (trimmed) NURBS.
I think if one wanted to incorporate the last 50 years of computer science, particularly computer graphics, one needed to broaden the feature set considerably.
You need support for precision subdivision surface modeling with variable radius creases (either via reverse subdivision where you make sure the limit surface pass through given constraints or using an interpolating subivision scheme that but has the same perks as e.g. Catmull-Clark).
Then you need to have SDF modeling ofc.
Possibly point based representations. If only as inputs.
And traditional B-Rep.
Finally, the kernel should be able to go back and forth lossless between these representations wherever possible.
And everything must be node-based, like e.g. Houdini. Completely non-destructive.
[1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck
[2] https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot
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Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust
I think you confuse the book/tutorial with the documentation on docs.rs.
My impression is that the former is very much a work in progress. I never looked at it until now.
The latter (and the examples in the resp. crates) is what you want to look at to see the kernel being used. E.g. https://github.com/ricosjp/truck/blob/master/truck-modeling/...
The main README has links to all the documentation of the crates.
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CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d
There are two Rust projects working on parametric kernels I'm aware of.
The first one, Truck[1] seems to have a company behind it, Ricos Ltd, that look like they to know what they're doing[2]. The tweet shows their product using functionality from Truck (the frontend is not OSS AFAIK).
Fornjot is an ambitious project IMHO. Their kernel is in a separate crate[3].
As for OSS code that could be a good base to either use (or port to something like Rust) for someone to write their own kernel is Ayam [4], the oldest OSS 3D NURBS modeler that is still being developed.
[1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck
[2] https://twitter.com/RICOS_ltd/status/1550390552482693120
[3] https://crates.io/crates/fj-kernel
[4] https://ayam.sourceforge.net/
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Fornjot (code-first CAD in Rust) - Weekly Dev Log - 2022-W21
I've been following your project with interest and was wondering if you were familiar with Truck. Its another project implementing a CAD kernel in Rust.
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Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
I will definitely keep reading and learning, as well as gaining practical implementation experience. We'll have to see how that goes, and what the solution will end up being.
> Another direction you could take is to define just the API, and use the opencascade kernel (like FreeCAD) until the rest of your code is ready.
A CAD kernel is the central dependency for any CAD program, and I feel that it would be wrong to just use one and accept its limitations. I need to be able to take ownership, to work on it directly. OpenCASCADE is a huge pile of C++ code, which is the opposite of all that. (Not saying it's wrong to use in general, just that I'm the wrong guy to work on a huge pile of C++ code.)
I've considered using Truck[1], but decided not to do that for now. I really want to see what I can come up with. If that doesn't work out, at least I'll be in a much better decision to decide what other option would be best.
[1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck
- Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application
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Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (3/2022)!
For a specific example: I am interested in working with 3D objects using Rust (maybe this is too ambitious for a newbie!) so I found a CAD kernel crate called truck which seems to be crate built of smaller crates and implementations of other libraries. How would you go about finding the most relevant info and where to start? Should I start by understanding all the smaller parts such as the gui/gpu rendering modules, or is that irrelevant and I can focus on figuring out the top level?
What are some alternatives?
meshlab - The open source mesh processing system
fornjot - Early-stage b-rep CAD kernel, written in the Rust programming language.
trimesh - Python library for loading and using triangular meshes.
gluon - A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.
sdfx - A simple CAD package using signed distance functions
CascadeStudio - A Full Live-Scripted CAD Kernel in the Browser
meshio - :spider_web: input/output for many mesh formats
build123d - A python CAD programming library
vedo - A python module for scientific analysis of 3D data based on VTK and Numpy
opencascade.js - Port of the OpenCascade CAD library to JavaScript and WebAssembly via Emscripten.
opencascade-emscripten-port - Open CASCADE - Emscripten / Webassembly port
Kind - A next-gen functional language [Moved to: https://github.com/Kindelia/Kind2]