For Philly Tech Week, I will be showing visitors how to take a shape from Adobe Illustrator into the popular open source CAD program OpenSCAD and make a 3D model suitable for 3D printing.

I’m sure you know Illustrator. It’s the most successful vector drawing program <clarkson>in the world.</clarkson> OpenSCAD is less well known. It is best described as coding for objects. You make a solid with the function cube() and cut a cylinder() out of it with the difference() function, etc. But sometimes you want a more organic or complicated shape to start with. That’s where artist JK Keller stepped in and made a script that automates some of the process for you. What you need for this workshop:

Laptop

Adobe Illustrator

OpenSCAD

This script: https://github.com/jk-keller/Adobe-Scripts

Some designs or ideas

There may not be time to print everyone’s design, but you should go home with something 3D printed.

Monday 4/22 5pm – 10

Gratis and Libre (free)

Hive76, suite 519

915 Spring Garden St

Philadelphia PA 19123

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