From 35ffdaf7804307b0342a3c111df208735e904a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:20:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.txt --- README.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 942ebbb..10e0079 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Currently only supports mendel and sturdy machine variants, the huxley version n Use --- -Add the directory of the OpenScad executable to your search. For Windows OpenSCAD-2012.02 or later is required. For Linux it will need to be OpenScad-2011.12 or later. +Add the directory of the OpenScad executable to your search path. For Windows OpenSCAD-2012.02 or later is required. For Linux it will need to be openscad-2011.12 or later. To make all the files for a machine run make_machine.py machine_name @@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ To make just the bom, sheets or stls run bom.py, sheets.py or stls.py machine_na machine_name can be mendel or sturdy. To make your own variant copy scad\conf\mendel_config.scad or scad\conf\sturdy_config.scad to yourname_config.scad. Then run make_machine yourname. -To view the model of the whole machine, open scad\main.scad. It will take several minutes to render (about about 8 miniutes on my computer) but after that you can pan and zoom it at reasonable speed and changes takes less time to render. (Note: main.scad will only render correctly if conf\machine.scad exists, which is created by the make_machine.py script.) +To view the model of the whole machine, open scad\main.scad. It will take several minutes to render (about about 8 minutes on my computer) but after that you can pan and zoom it at reasonable speed and changes takes less time to render. (Note: main.scad will only render correctly if conf\machine.scad exists, which is created by the make_machine.py script.) To view a sub-assembly, open the individual scad files. Set the exploded flag in config.scad to make exploded views. +To get blender renders of all the parts put blender in your search path and run render.py machine_name. + Credits ------- Fan model based on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8063 by MiseryBot, CC license.