From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 12 20:46:44 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 3035D10441E5 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823AF7F845 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997787180F6; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:46:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: 3d modeling recommendations? To: Steve O'Hara-Smith , freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <08a5e26d-18cb-9f42-9e63-6fd8f4dc953e@dreamchaser.org> <20180712212311.57a9d9dcdb6e242cfd070713@sohara.org> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: <8c48216d-7899-e545-0837-3cad1e410a64@kicp.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:46:36 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180712212311.57a9d9dcdb6e242cfd070713@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US 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 20:46:44 -0000 On 07/12/18 15:23, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > 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. I used FreeCAD quite successfully to send models to 3D printing company (and we printed them in house as well). There is FreeCAD package (as well as port). I'm sure there is openscad package on FreeBSD as well though I never used it (will try it out next time I need to model something). Thanks. Valeri > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++