From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 12 20:23:32 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCDF1041536 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F6877E01F for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1531427012; x=1534019012; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=57DNDSnOFS+BdPXNTEP+d2HJnFMR4+ZAjXLjtkOvSd0=; b=HJjid66nQGA3gyIzpnPqvIWU5wLJhKnaiufBN4oqUcKHUq1ar2f2rpgXL7I326kI3+yEkRNkMuvHSqwqwg3QkYe6qHL5JPSw8sxrN4MzH0Pnf6+OAtPyXcgc7XnZHQTPZ/MehLPcDsHfSc9eU+0jYg/Bve7VeHFODIAlj72ZfCI= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOTMwMDAwMDAxZDA5OGMuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [54.85.171.149]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:23:16 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:23:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fdi7L-000HjJ-6g; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:23:11 +0000 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:23:11 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: 3d modeling recommendations? Message-Id: <20180712212311.57a9d9dcdb6e242cfd070713@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <08a5e26d-18cb-9f42-9e63-6fd8f4dc953e@dreamchaser.org> References: <08a5e26d-18cb-9f42-9e63-6fd8f4dc953e@dreamchaser.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:23:33 -0000 On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:19:26 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a 3-d graphics drawing program (port) that will > generate .stl or .obj files? I need something to create code for driving > a 3d printer. I'm quite fond of openscad which is in the ports - details at: http://www.openscad.org/ It's based around text files describing what is to be drawn, writing scad files is a lot like writing a program with extrusion and CSG as primitives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith