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Applies a minkowski sum to selected shapes.
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#Select shapes in Tree-View or in 3D-View
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#Click on [[Image:OpenSCAD_Minkowski.png|32px]] or choose {{KEY| OpenSCAD}} → {{KEY|[[Image:OpenSCAD_Minkowski.png|32px]] Minkowski}} from the top menu.
#Click on [[Image:OpenSCAD_Minkowski.png|32px]] or choose {{KEY| OpenSCAD}} → {{KEY|[[Image:OpenSCAD_Minkowski.png|32px]] Minkowski}} from the top menu.

Revision as of 21:28, 2 March 2016

OpenSCAD Minkowski

Menu location
OpenSCAD → Minkowski‏‎
Workbenches
OpenSCAD
Default shortcut
none
Introduced in version
-
See also
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Description

Applies a minkowski sum to selected shapes.

Mathematical Definition:
Add each element of subset A to each element of subset B to get minkowski sum.
Geometrical Definition:
Sweep element A along all boundaries of element B. Resulting space which is occupied by both elements is minkowski sum.

An example of a minkowski sum
Example of minkowski sum applied to cylinder and cube.
Note that the height of minkowski sum is height of cylinder plus height of cube.

Use

  1. Select shapes in Tree-View or in 3D-View
  2. Click on or choose OpenSCAD Minkowski from the top menu.

Limitations

Feature needs OpenSCAD installed and configured in Edit Preferences

Notes