/** * @file generic-helpers.scad * @brief Generic Helper Functions. Not gridfinity specific. */ function clp(x,a,b) = min(max(x,a),b); module rounded_rectangle(length, width, height, rad) { linear_extrude(height) offset(rad) offset(-rad) square([length,width], center = true); } module rounded_square(length, height, rad) { rounded_rectangle(length, length, height, rad); } module copy_mirror(vec=[0,1,0]) { children(); if (vec != [0,0,0]) mirror(vec) children(); } module pattern_linear(x = 1, y = 1, sx = 0, sy = 0) { yy = sy <= 0 ? sx : sy; translate([-(x-1)*sx/2,-(y-1)*yy/2,0]) for (i = [1:ceil(x)]) for (j = [1:ceil(y)]) translate([(i-1)*sx,(j-1)*yy,0]) children(); } module pattern_circular(n=2) { for (i = [1:n]) rotate(i*360/n) children(); } /** * @brief Unity (no change) affine transformation matrix. * @details For use with multmatrix transforms. */ unity_matrix = [ [1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1] ]; /** * @brief Get the magnitude of a 2d or 3d vector * @param vector A 2d or 3d vectorm * @returns Magnitude of the vector. */ function vector_magnitude(vector) = sqrt(vector.x^2 + vector.y^2 + (len(vector) == 3 ? vector.z^2 : 0)); /** * @brief Convert a 2d or 3d vector into a unit vector * @returns The unit vector. Where total magnitude is 1. */ function vector_as_unit(vector) = vector / vector_magnitude(vector); /** * @brief Convert a 2d vector into an angle. * @details Just a wrapper around atan2. * @param A 2d vectorm * @returns Angle of the vector. */ function atanv(vector) = atan2(vector.y, vector.x); /** * @brief Affine transformation matrix for 2d rotation on the X,Y plane. * @param angle The angle to rotate things by * @returns an Affine transformation matrix for use with `multmatrix()` */ function affine_rotation(angle) = [ [cos(angle), 0, sin(angle), 0], [0, 1, 0, 0], [-sin(angle), 0, cos(angle), 0], [0, 0, 0, 1] ]; /** * @brief Affine transformation matrix for 2d translation on the X,Y plane. * @param vector 2d Vector to translate by. * @returns an Affine transformation matrix for use with `multmatrix()` */ function affine_translation(vector) = [ [1, 0, 0, vector.y], [0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, vector.x], [0, 0, 0, 1] ]; /** * @brief Create a rectangle with rounded corners by sweeping a 2d object along a path. * Centered on origin. */ module sweep_rounded(width=10, length=10) { half_width = width/2; half_length = length/2; path_points = [ [-half_width, half_length], //Start [half_width, half_length], // Over [half_width, -half_length], //Down [-half_width, -half_length], // Back over [-half_width, half_length] // Up to start ]; path_vectors = [ path_points[1] - path_points[0], path_points[2] - path_points[1], path_points[3] - path_points[2], path_points[4] - path_points[3], ]; // These contain the translations, but not the rotations // OpenSCAD requires this hacky for loop to get accumulate to work! first_translation = affine_translation(path_points[0]); affine_translations = concat([first_translation], [ for (i = 0, a = first_translation; i < len(path_vectors); a=a * affine_translation(path_vectors[i]), i=i+1) a * affine_translation(path_vectors[i]) ]); // Affine matrix to rotate around X axis rot_x = 90; x_matrix = [ [1, 0, 0, 0], [0, cos(rot_x), -sin(rot_x), 0], [0, sin(rot_x), cos(rot_x), 0], [0, 0, 0, 1] ]; // Affine matrix to rotate around Z axis z_rot = 90; z_matrix = [ [cos(z_rot), -sin(z_rot), 0, 0], [sin(z_rot), cos(z_rot), 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1] ]; // Bring extrusion to the xy plane affine_matrix = z_matrix * x_matrix; walls = [ for (i = [0 : len(path_vectors) - 1]) affine_matrix * affine_translations[i] * affine_rotation(atanv(path_vectors[i])) ]; union() { for (i = [0 : len(walls) - 1]){ multmatrix(walls[i]) linear_extrude(vector_magnitude(path_vectors[i])) children(); // Rounded Corners multmatrix(walls[i] *x_matrix*x_matrix*x_matrix *z_matrix*z_matrix*z_matrix*z_matrix) rotate_extrude(angle = 90, convexity = 4) children(); } } }