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Re: OpenSCAD question, unioning two imported stls

2012-12-12T15:26:13Z

One more question, let's say I have an imported stl I want to fit to a cylindrical object. Is there a way to bend the stl around a curve? With a cube I could use a for loop to union bunches of small cubes together around the shape.

Re: OpenSCAD question, unioning two imported stls

2012-12-12T14:48:56Z

translate ([ x,y,z ])

the missing brackets might be the cause of your troubles...

union should also be lower case - or it might be interpreted as a variable.

Also, if these are objects you've made with SCAD, you can also try 'include' on the scad files...

If you get it going, please comment on how

OpenSCAD question, unioning two imported stls

2012-12-12T14:18:36Z

If I want to union two imported STLS would the syntax be:

Union()
{
import("base.stl");
translate (0,0,10) import("addon.stl");
}

I'm very new to OpenSCAD. I'm looking at using it to union some STLs from the app that I got to make 3D engraved STLs from 2D images. I've tried in some other apps but they don't seem to want to work with these stls for some reason.