@Nathan-Apter welcome

Please try www.openjscad.xyz

The examples can be found by clicking on the ? In the top right corner.

Keep those questions coming!

If you start with a simple file design.js, save it in a folder and use editor of your choice.

open https://openjscad.xyz/ and make sure you check the option "Enable Auto-reload"
drag and drop the file into the window and you will see the model

change your js file and save, changes will be picked-up automatically.
openjscad checks for changes every second, but if you want to see changes even faster you can use livereload.

one way to use livereload is via nodejs
if you have nodejs just run
npm -g install livereload
go to the folder with your design and run:
livereload

you must do the livereload step before you drag and drop design into openjscad window.

@Maria-Alzate Just for your information, as part of the last release, there's a new project() function which can project a 3D shape to a 2D shape.

@geobruce Just for your information, as part of the last release, there's a new project() function which can project a 3D shape to a 2D shape.

@Alasdair-McAndrew Just for your information, as part of the last release, there's a new project() function which can project a 3D shape to a 2D shape.

@Dunk-Fordyce I really like this concept of a preconfigured project. It would be a great addition to the JSCAD project.

Probably, there are a few different styles of projects. So, maybe a little repository of starting projects could be created.

Interested?

@hrgdavor Yes that's this one. (the Maker comes with a fine-point blade and a rotary blade)

@ksanger welcome

Correct. The 'OpenSCAD' conversion to JSCAD has been decommissioned. The code is very old and needs some extensive maintenance / enhancements.

Your students should be able to use the new website easily; www.openjscad.xyz

The 'syntax' to create a new design is slightly different but there's plenty of documentation.

@Pippo-LoVe as mentioned, JSCAD focuses on designs for 3D printing, and therefore colors are essential. Colors are assigned to a geometry / shape after completing all operations.

Colors can also be assigned to individual polygons on 3D geometries.

Having said the above, textures may be possible. But there have not been many requests for this support.

I love the idea of putting all the docs in markdown in the git repo itself.

The original site could also be hosted in gh-pages branch. There are a bunch of tools to convert markdown to html, so they could be optionally embedded in the app.

As a stopgap, for anyone needing V1 - there's a copy over at https://creator.buildbee.com

JFo

Nice collection! Might have a look at JSCAD hardware and MakerJS.

Some parts of JSCAD hardware have been included in Buildbee MakeCode (which is V1 JSCad based).

JFo

@dburt welcome

Yes. You can make that example work. You might want to take a look at this project, which uses the JSCAD CLI (command line interface) for compiling the design and exporting SVG. Specifically, the 'localfont' project.

https://github.com/jscad-community/jscad-text

If you are going to work with other JavaScript libraries, especially those using async functions or promises then take a look at the 'googlefont' project.

@z3dev 'class' element for sure is interesting as it will ease styling. About 'id', yes it must be used carefully to ensure that each object has its unique id, generally I use names forged from data (line between triangle 23 and 111 has id 'L_23_111', etc.). 'name' is deprecated so it's maybe wise to avoid it, on very old js code I remember i used 'tag', as svg doesn't use it, as svg can use custom attributes, it can be anything. And it would be really great to have exported svg from jscad with such fine details, because it will allow rework those outputs with great ease. I tried to use localStorage from a jscad script and it doesn't work, so my only other possibility would be to output to console.

@veysel-özer thanks for the nice examples.

yeah. this is the behavior of V2. it's probably a BUG when contracting 2D geometries, as 2D geometry must have non-crossing outlines by definition.

a fix can be done in the next version. when that will happen is a big question as everything is on hold waiting for the websites to be restored.

if you have time then please create a new issue at GitHub.

@z3dev Apparently the temporary v2 website doesn't handle links like those of examples, it may be easier to wait for the original website to be online.

@z3dev thank you, that is really helpful!

@rich-27 thanks for the feedback 🙂 ... it is nice see more people join the community. Have fun and create more cool stuff 🙂

V1 color syntax is color("Red", extrudes[0])

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