Project: Form based script parameterization

Outline

OpenSCAD uses a scripting language to describe 3D models. The scripts can be parametrized so one generic description can generate a whole class of specific models. This project intends to define a way how to store additional meta data that can be used to automatically generate a user interface to modify the parameters.

Details

There are already some implementations that provide a similar functionality but those do not integrate with OpenSCAD and are not fully Open Source (e.g. Thingiverse Customizer, Sculpteo Customizer). Also it's anticipated to use a more general and clearly defined way to specify the needed meta data than using comments inside the script.

Topics that need to be solved:

• An official way of specifying these parameters (could be based on one or both of the existing approaches)
• Write a dynamic GUI in OpenSCAD giving an equivalent GUI to the two existing solutions (this could be done in Qt-JavaScript, or pure html using a web view)

Expected Outcome

Project Properties

Skills

• Analyze subjects and specify ways to implement
• Communicate with the community to fine tune requirements
• C++ or JavaScript/HTML depending on the proposed solution

Difficulty

Medium

Additional Information

Note that Thingiverse Customizer is probably based on CloudSCAD (https://github.com/tbuser/cloudscad), so we can take some ideas from there.