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A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a little cottage in white color. Big door in the small house wall on the right side, over the door a round window tiled into quarters by thin horizontal and vertical beams. We are looking directly at the side wall with 2 big windows, almost square with gothic style arch above separated by a horizontal beam. The roof has some cut-outs in the shape of the crescent moon and stars of different sizes. From the backside on the left side of the roof we see the top of the chimney being a bit higher than the roof. Door and windows are colored in a light yellow, a bit like lit from inside.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing 2 white parts of an enclosure shaped like a stylized angel with its wings spread wide. One of the parts has a pedestal with a box at the bottom that's supposed to hold a battery pack, the other one is just the angel shape with a cut-out for the pedestal so they can be clipped together leaving an empty space inside for an LED string.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a penguin standing in the middle of the screen. The penguin wears a red Christmas hat with yellow pommel and brim.
An animation created in OpenSCAD looking a matrix of cubes from above. The cubes are all different color from starting left bottom in red going counter clockwise over yellow, green, cyan, blue magenta back to red. The colors in the middle are a bit less saturated. Each cube has thin silver edges. The animation starts with all cubes in full size where the cubes are touching, moving forward the cubes rotate a quarter turn counter clockwise and get smaller to about one third of the size, after a tiny pause the animation reverses back to the original state.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a circular shape built from small oval shapes. The shapes are arranged in spirals and the colors change from brown in the center to yellow/gold at the outside.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a model of a simple plain round gift box with a screw-on lid. The bottom part is a light green, the lid is light red. The model is shown in some sort of assembly view with the lid floating above the box. The box shows as completely solid as this model is intended to be printed in vase mode, so the hollowing of the model to actually become a container to fill with gifts will be done later in the slicer.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing 2 white parts of a tree shaped enclosure. One of the part has the trunk and a box at the bottom that's supposed to hold a battery pack, the other one has just the top of the tree and a cut-out for the trunk so they can be clipped together leaving an empty space inside. The tree is a shaped as a stylized triangular Christmas tree with 3 levels.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a long thin bookmark in light brown color with a gingerbread man at the top and a tapered rounded tip at the bottom. It has a small cutout around the lower part that goes into the book so it can be clipped around a couple of pages.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a classic name tag to put on luggage with a elongated slightly rounded rectangular shape and a small hole for attachment. The base is yellow and the border and text are dark green. The text is written in two lines, the first one says "Santa Claus" and the second one "North Pole".
An animated screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view fading between 5 different images showing the fractal at iteration levels 0 to 4. The initial one is just a square with sides red (in front), green, blue, yellow anti-clockwise. Each iteration replaces every line into 6 lines arranged like two F, one rotated 180 degrees and overlapping them at the horizontal lines. Increasing iterations create a ever more intricate patter looking a bit like connected rings.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a geometric Christmas tree built from beams with a trapezoid profile. It has short brown tile at the bottom representing the trunk, on top a roughly triangle shaped green tree built from 3 levels of staggered overlapping green beams on each side. All of the 6 beams creating the foliage are the same size, the horizontal bottom beam is a bit longer making the tree is about twice as high as it's wide.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing 2 white parts of the 3d printable star sitting side by side. Both are just flat empty shells in rounded 5 pointed star shape that when clipped together leave some room for a LED string inside. The left one has a foot to stand on with room for the battery of the LED string. The right one just has a cutout where the foot is on the other part.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing 2 rings of 12 cubes evenly spaced and of the same size. The rings are aligned such that the inner cubes sit between the outer cubes. The inner ring has only light green cubes, the inner ring has 2 red cubes on opposite sides, the other 10 cubes are white.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing the animation of a Christmas pyramid. It has a beige colored hexagonal base with 3 red candles and the other 3 corners of the hexagon create an also beige colored 3 beam arch holding the rotor. In the center sits a dark green conifer slowly spinning around on the rotor base.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a cookie cutter in 3d printable orientation, flat side down, gray color. It's tracing the outline of a gingerbread man as stylized human, just some round curves hinting at head, arms and feet.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a colored rendering of the Tricorn. It has a regular triangle shaped dark center with 3 long spikes going out from the corners having dark blue pillars around the board. Going outwards the shapes gets more rounded and flatten. The colors change from the inner dark blue over green to a final yellow circle.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view with a light blue Christmas bauble in the general shape of a teardrop. The main body is created from twisted ridges/grooves that wrap around the shape. The narrowing upper part gets solid and has small ring on top.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing the text "Earth is attacked ..." rendered in big font in the default OpenSCAD yellow.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a 12x9 grid of square Truchet Tiles. Each tile has a random light pastel color and 2 quarter circles drawn in black from top center to left center and right center to bottom center. Combining the tiles in randomly rotated orientation produces a pattern of wavy lines.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a wood colored toboggan. A simple version with a flat bottom and curved front. It has a number of dark yellow cross beams and handrails at the sides.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a red ball shaped object. It's not solid but formed by combining 3 rotated sets of round/elliptic plates arranged as a fan sitting in the center, each set rotated 120 degrees.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view. It's showing a TicTacToe board in the classic OpenSCAD yellow. It has 3 crosses in bottom left, bottom center, top center and 3 circles top left, middle center and bottom right. The 3 circles are connected via a red bar. At the bottom, below the board is written "I win!".
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view showing a flat brown ring with leaf like objects in various shades of green growing out of it.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD 3d view, showing a green cylindrical candle holder at a shallow angle. It's not very tall and has a round pocket on top for placing the (LED) candle. Around the pocket are 2 rings of bigger red and slightly smaller yellow petals tilted a bit inwards.
Book cover, black background, showing a stylized extrusion based 3d printer with a dark yellow bed and a red model sitting on top which looks like maybe a rabbit. On the top left side of the printer a spool with red filament is attached. On the right side attached is a small green display, which is not showing any details. Over the 3d printer the book title is shown in big green letters "Ça, c’est OpenSCAD". On the bottom the author name is shown: Roberto Hamm.
Screenshot of the OpenSCAD Preferences window with the Advanced tab being selected. The section "3D Rendering" has the Backend ComboBox set to the value "CGAL (old/slow)" which can still be selected to revert to the graphics engine that has been driving OpenSCAD for many years.
Screenshot of OpenSCAD showing the editor at the top with a short script creating the same text twice using the same font but the first one in the script, shown on top in the view port has the font features "Small Caps" (smcp) and "Oldstyle Figures" (onum) enabled. s = 20; t = "Hello World! - 01234567890"; text(t, s, font = "Linux Libertine G:style=Regular:fontfeatures=+smcp;+onum"); translate([0, -2 * s]) text(t, s, font = "Linux Libertine G:style=Regular"); The smcp feature causes the lower case letters to look like scaled down upper case letters and the onum feature changes the numbers to have different height. 0, 1, 2 are small as lower case letters, the other digits have the height of upper case letters with 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 sitting below the base line having the top aligned with the small numbers, 6 and 8 sitting on the base line. The bottom of the screenshot shows the font selection window with the Linux Libertine G font selected, showing some more details about the font.
A screenshot of the OpenSCAD GUI, the 3D view showing a simple rectangular open box. The more interesting part is the code editor though. It shows a couple of lines of python code, implying the box was not produced from a normal scad script but from this python code. The actual code shown is: from openscad import * c1 = cube([10, 20, 11], center = True) c2 = cube([8, 18, 12], center = True) box = c1 - (c2 + [0, 0, 2]) box.rotate([0, 0, 40]).show()
Sequence of OpenSCAD screenshots showing examples of the StoneAgeLib fading in and out. 1st "chamfered extrusion" shows a chamfered cylinder, a chamfered plate with the letters ABC embossed and a chamfered cuboid. 2nd "cylinder with fillet" shows a standing cylinder with fillet and a plate with some sort of grip or handle created from filleted cylinders. 3rd "random textures" shows 3 round plates with different textures on top, left looks like the plate that is broken into lots of pieces, middle has some rough random surface and the right one has random lines zig-zagging across the surface. 4th "turtle graphics" shows 2 different squiggly lines, one just going left and right in a very narrow pattern, the other one going in wide curves, a bit like the noses on puzzles. Otherwise there is a spikey shape like an action speech bubble in comics, a plate one side rectangular, other side like a sine wave and a 3d shape looking like a round door knob with a flat top.
Screenshot exporting a file called CSG-modules.3mf as shown in the file selection dialog. In the background the colored 3D model of the example "CSG modules" is open showing the scad source code with very small font and the model explaining union/intersection and difference using green for the unioned cylinder, red and blue for the intersected cube and sphere. Between the different parts are thin black cylinders visualizing the tree nature of the operations.
An animation generated in OpenSCAD showing a quite realistic looking conifer before a light blue background, slightly swaying back and forth.
A looping sequence of three animations created in OpenSCAD, each starting with multiple totally unordered heaps of sicks or lines in red, green and white. The sticks are moving slowly into a different position forming the messages "Merry Christmas", "Happy New Year" and "♡ 2025 ♡". Once the sticks are fully aligned, the whole message turns yellow for a couple of seconds before moving on to the next animation.
An OpenSCAD screenshot showing Nessie... with a red Christmas hat, complete with white pompom on top. The whole background is blue sea with some dark patches for waves. Nessie is green waving through the sea, tail, middle part of the body and head out of the water, coming from left moving to front right direction. Big red nose, maybe because it's cold (or related to Rudolph the Reindeer?). Eyes straight ahead, looking at something we can't see.
A round shape looking like a mix between fireworks and a dandelion clock. It branches off from the center in all directions with yellow branches getting thinner outwards. At the end there are small spheres in red, green and white. The whole structure is rotating back and forth a bit while the spheres are changing colors.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out. First is a flat round plate with a smaller cylinder in the middle at twice the height. The center has a small hole. The second screenshot shows a tube with a thin wall. Next a shape built of two truncated cones on top of each other, starting at middle sized diameter at the bottom, diameter extending going up till reaching maximum diameter at 1/3rd of the object, above that the diameter shrinks to a small diameter at the top. On top sits a small cylinder with that small diameter. The 4th and 5th screenshot show the same image assembling the 3 pieces to a simple lamp, stacking the tube on the circular plate and on top of the tube sits the 3rd object flipped upside down, the small cylinder fitting into the tube. The last screenshot shows an assembly diagram with the 3 pieces spread apart and adding a small screw at the bottom and a single battery cell between tube and lamp shade.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out. First is a simple regular decagon. Next a decagon with a cut-out that is also a decagon in green. Above that is a similar shape in red but it's missing a triangular part. The 3rd screenshot shows 2 rows of stars, each row has 5 stars and is starting left with a 4 pointed star and increases the number of points so the ones on the right side are 8 pointed stars. The difference between the 2 rows is that the ones in front are pointier. Screenshot 4 shows 2 isosceles, right-angled triangles, one on the X/Y plane, the other one a bit above. In screenshot 5 the triangles are now connected by square faces creating tan colored a prism. Screenshot 6 modifies the prism by moving the vertex at X and Y = 0 to a smaller Z value. Screenshot 7 shows a 5 pointed star in light blue. The last screenshot shows again a 5 pointed star but it scales the size down going up and it has another small star cut out creating something like a star shaped bowl.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out. The first shows something looking like a white stylized flat tree, like cut from paper, branching twice. The left branch is slightly offset from the right one. The next one shows a similar shape, just branched once more. The 3rd screenshot shows 6 of those shapes each rotated 60 degrees against the previous one, creating something resembling a simple hexagonal snowflake. In screenshots 4 to 6 we have different snowflakes getting more random and with more variations in branch sizes and thickness. Screenshot 7 is a collection of 9 now pretty realistic looking snowflakes aligned in a grid.
5 small touching cubes aligned diagonally on the positive quadrant of the X/Y plane, starting at the origin. Then 4 cubes also arranged diagonally but leaving every 2nd place free. After that again a diagonal of 5 cubes, but the first cube sits one on the negative side of the X/Y plane, then 2 cubes touching and 2 more cubes leaving a free place. Next a ring of triangular plates rotated around the Y axis with some spacing leaving a hole in the middle. At the outside there are gaps between the pointy end of the triangle, the flat side of the triangular plate is oriented to the center of the ring. Screenshot 5 closes the gaps between the plates creating a solid ring with triangular cross section. In screenshot 6 the triangular shape gets rounded corners making it look like a still slightly triangular donut. For screenshot 7 the ring gets twisted 3 times and colored by fading between green, yellow and red. Screenshot 8 adds round twisted groves.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out. This is the visualization on different ways for generating rounded rectangles, so all of the 8 screenshots except the 7th show rectangles with rounded edges just with different sizes. Screenshot 3 is a bit special as its rectangle has rounding with different radius, the one on the upper left has only half the radius of all the others and the upper right has twice the radius. The 7th screenshot shows a small polygon representing one of the rounded edges, it looks like a quarter circle arc where the two ends of the arc are also connected by a straight line.
A screenshot of OpenSCAD showing an interpretation of the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Wikipedia describes the original painting that it "portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.". The OpenSCAD version does not have the people and lighting, but otherwise stays quite near the original showing the diner with yellow walls, the big brown counter and the bar stools lined up at big glass front.
Screenshot of a Christmas bauble. The main body is a light blue sphere with a rounded grove around the equator. Embedded, while keeping the overall sphere outline, is a light brown shape of a six pointed star which is slightly twisted. From top and bottom the star shape is visible and from the side the points of the star shape show as small bridges or walls at the bottom of the groove.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, the first showing a light brown candle holder with a ring shaped base and 3 white candles. The second shows a similar holder with a smaller diameter and 4 smaller candles. The candles have a black wick and a stylized yellow flame.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, the first shows two identical cubes with a spherical cutout. The second shows 3 bowls shaped like regular polygons with 5, 6 and 8 sides respectively and different wall thickness. The third shows 3 simple candle holders, in the back a small hexagonal one for a single candle, in the middle a simple one for two candles based on a short bar with cylindrical slots on each side. In front a holder for 3 candles, based on a ring having the cylindrical slots distributed evenly over the ring.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, the first showing a triangle, the second a ring with a cross section matching that triangle. The third shows only a quarter of the ring. The 4th shows two halves of rings with different sized rectangular cross section sitting opposite to each other. The 5th shows two cylinders, one sitting on top of the X/Y plane, the other one centered half above and half below the X/Y plane. The 6th displays an object that has a circular bottom and a smaller elliptical top. The 7th and last one shows a bar with a rectangular cross section twisted 90 degrees along the length of the bar.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, the first 3 showing function graphs in 2D, the third resembling half of the vertical cross section of a candle. The 4th screenshot shows the candle body in white generated by rotate extruding the graph from the previous screenshot. The candle has a small black cylinder at the top as wick. The next 2 screenshots show graphs that will be used for the flame and the final two combining everything to a candle with a flame, the last one just tweaking the shape of the flame by stretching it out a bit in Z direction.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, the first shows the numbers 9 and 12. The second shows 3 rectangles getting smaller from front to back. The third screenshot is of a pentagon and the fourth and last one shows the text "7! = 5040".
OpenSCAD screenshot of the coaster. It's base is light blue and square shaped with slightly rounded corners and a thin border. The inside is a light brown with a pattern of long slots aligned in rows horizontally but shifted from row to row.
OpenSCAD screenshot of a toy. In front is a white box with 3 cutouts in form of a rounded square, a rounded triangle and a circle. Behind that there are 3 blue objects that can fit into the cutouts, a rounded cube, a 3 sided prism with rounded edges and a cylinder also with rounded edges.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, showing first how subtracted geometry can be made visible using the # modifier, here a cylinder is subtracted to create a hole in the cube. The modifier shows the cylinder in transparent red to make it visible. Next the ! modifier is used to comment out parts of the model, so the screenshot only shows the base plate with a sphere on top. For the % modifier, the screenshot shows a flat cuboid with 4 small transparent gray cubes in the corners. The last modifier * can be used to comment out geometry, so the screenshot only shows the remaining cylinder. The last screenshot, using 3 circles shows the effect of $fn = 5 creating a pentagon, $fa = 60 creating a hexagon and $fs = 5 creating a heptagon.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, showing first the union of a cylinder and a flat cuboid arranged like an upside down T. Next using difference there are two small holes at the side of the cuboid and a big hole through the cylinder. The third screenshot shows the intersection of a cube with a sphere producing a dice like object. The last one pictures the tree of CSG operations similar to the one shown on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, showing first a square in 2D being translated and later rotated, after that a sphere translated in 3D space and a rotated cylinder are shown. Last there are 2 screenshots of spheres transformed by resize() and scale() into long, flat shapes vaguely similar to a surf board.
Screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, showing the geometric primitives of OpenSCAD, square, circle, polygon, in 2D and cube, cylinder, sphere and polyhedron in 3D.
Three screenshots of OpenSCAD fading in and out, showing just cubes in different sizes and position.
Screenshot of a simple stylized christmas tree created in OpenSCAD. It's composed of a brown cylinder as trunk and green stacked star shaped parts that are getting smaller towards the top representing the branches.