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Limitations
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Currently only supports mendel and sturdy machine variants, the huxley version needs more work.
Use
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Add the directory of the OpenScad executable to your search path. OpenSCAD-2013.06 or later is required.
To get PDF versions of the sheet drawings add InkScape to your search path.
To make all the files for a machine run
make_machine.py machine_name
```python
make_machine.py machine_name
```
To make just the bom, sheets or stls run bom.py, sheets.py or stls.py machine_name.
To make just the bom, sheets or stls run bom.py, sheets.py or stls.py machine\_name.
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.
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 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.)
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To get blender renders of all the parts put blender in your search path and run render.py machine_name.
Credits
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Fan model based on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8063 by MiseryBot, CC license.
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Fan model based on [this model](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8063) by MiseryBot, CC license.
Sanguinololu model http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18606 by ax_the_b, CC license.
[Sanguinololu model](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18606) by ax\_the\_b, CC license.
Spring taken from openscad example 20
x-end.scad and wade.scad use some elements of the Prusa ones by Josef Prusa, GPL license.
z_couplings originally based on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7153 by Griffin_Nicoll, GPL license.
z_couplings originally based on [this model](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7153) by Griffin_Nicoll, GPL license.
Bearing holders originally based on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7755 by Jolijar, CC license.
Bearing holders originally based on [this model](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7755) by Jolijar, CC license.
InkCL.py based on code from http://kaioa.com/node/42
InkCL.py based on [this code](http://kaioa.com/node/42)