About a year ago I was publishing a Jupyterlab plugin to view 3d files. That’s a quite useful functionality for my Openscad Kernel. Quite some time ago however it stopped from working because it was not compatible with the latest versions of the Jupyterlab kernel any more. So I thought Read more…
I needed to print some Springs in OpenSCAD. To simplify my work I have written a very small, simple and efficient library that I have described in the following Gist. The source code is also available on Github. This demo has been written in Jupyterlab using my OpenSCAD Kernel.
Im my last Blog I was using some functionality from https://dkprojects.net/openscad-threads/ in order to define a nut and a bolt. I was finding this library with the help of Google. Like with any software language, it does not make sense if you try to re-invent the wheel (though some key Read more…
The OpenSCAD kernel V1.0.13 for Jupyter is available on PyPi and ready to be used. As a poof of concept and to test the functionality I was using my Quadrotor Design:
Out of the box Jupyterlab is providing a rich set of supported languages for Syntax Highlighting. Unfortunately OpenSCAD is not one of them. So I tried to research this topic: Internally Jupyterlab is using the CodeMirror editor and Codemirror allows to extend the syntax highlighting by defining custom modes. The Read more…
Update: I needed to switch from Alpine to Ubuntu to make this work reliably. The latest release is also automatically adding the necessary xvfb command at the startup of the kernel. The image can be found on Dockerhub
The STL (Standard Triangle Language) is the industry standard file type for 3D Printing. Jupyter and it’s successor Jupyterlab offer quite a big range of built in renderers that allow you to display different file formats. Unfortunately this is not true for 3D file formats. To close this gap, I decided to implement a simple Read more…
