Fabric Weave Library

This is an OpenSCAD library for generating 3D prints of tightly woven fabrics. I was inspired by the many chainmail patterns I saw on here, and started wondering what it would take to generate a woven fabric pattern. There are three weave patterns I came up with. One is a flat classic fabric weave with sinusoidal waves in the z direction. The second is a crossed pattern of right handed and left-handed helices where each helix always cross the others at a right angle. The third pattern has interlocking helices traveling only in the x direction, resulting in a tightly woven fabric pattern that flexes freely in the y direction without even bending the plastic. (This last pattern might work very well for bracelets, as one example.)

I've enabled the Customizer feature for creating fabric samples right here. But probably for most interesting uses this will be a component of other designs. The useful API functions for use in your own OpenSCAD routines are as follows:

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