ScalaCad

Overview

ScalaCad is a Constructive Solid Geometry library/DSL for Scala with support for creating, visualizing, and exporting 3D models. Models created with ScalaCad can be exported to the STL file format for 3D printing.

ScalaCad Dependency

To use ScalaCad, add the following to your build:

resolvers += Resolver.bintrayRepo("joewing", "maven")
libraryDependencies += "net.joewing" %% "scalacad" % "<version>"

Creating a 3D Model.

A simple embedded domain-specific language (DSL) for creating models is available in the net.joewing.scalacad.primitives package.

3D Objects

The following 3D objects are available:

• Cube
• Cylinder
• Sphere

2D Objects

2D objects can be extruded to create 3-dimensional objects using the extrude function. This permits one to perform rotations, etc., which enables one to create objects such as screw threads. The following 3D objects are available:

• Circle
• Polygon
• Raster
• Rectangle
• Triangle

Transformations

Both 2D and 3D objects can be transformed via the following transformations:

• Rotate
• Scale
• Translate

Operations

Both 2D and 3D objects can be combined using the following operations:

• Difference
• Intersection
• Union

Visualizing a 3D Model

Models can be visualized using AwtRenderer.show from thenet.joewing.scalacad.io package. This will open a window to display the object.

Saving a 3D Model

Models can be saved to STL files using the StlFileWriter.write method from the net.joewing.scalacad.io package.

Reading a 3D Model

Models can be loaded from STL files using the StlFileReader.read method from the net.joewing.scalacad.io package.

An example

Here's a simple example that can run from the command line as a script. See the SBT Documentation for instructions on installing the scalas script required to run this. Once scalas is available in your path, simply save this file as Hole.scala, make it executable (chmod +x Hole.scala), and run it (./Hole.scala).

#!/usr/bin/env scalas

// A simple ScalaCad example as a Scala script.
// See https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.0/docs/Scripts.html

/***
resolvers += Resolver.bintrayRepo("joewing", "maven")
libraryDependencies += "net.joewing" %% "scalacad" % "0.4"
*/

import net.joewing.scalacad._
import net.joewing.scalacad.primitives._

val obj = cube(10, 10, 10).centered - cylinder(10, 3, 3, 16).centered
io.StlFileWriter.write(obj, "hole.stl")