Introduction#

Start here if you are new to OpenVCAD. These pages install the toolchain, explain why OpenVCAD models whole volumes instead of surfaces, and walk through your first designs.

Guide

Focus

Installation

Set up a virtual environment, install OpenVCAD, and get the examples

Theory and motivation

Why attribute modeling, and how it changes the way you design for multi-material printing

Getting started with OpenVCAD

Your first pyvcad scripts: CSG, transforms, attributes, colors, volume fractions, and coordinate spaces

Moving from version 2 to 3

How to express version 2 designs with the version 3 attribute-modeling workflow

Read the guides in order. Every other guide section assumes you have finished Getting Started.

Introduction guides