Openscad Beams Library

An openscad library to create complex objects easily

Ship or airplane hulls or models thereof are often constructed from frames which define beams and the external shape of the hull.

This technique is also useful for construction in openscad, particularly in 3d printing.

I have been using this technique manually for quite some time, constructing my frames one by one, placing them and connecting them using the openscad hull command.

This library attempts to somewhat automate the task. All you need to do is define your frames (size, offset, rotation) in a list and pass this list to a library module.

The library module constructs the hull shape from the list.

If you want to change something, you can easily do so by adjusting the parameters in the list, whithout any further code changes.

I have found this technique quite useful for both simple and complex objects.

For example, the complex double-crossbeam connected by longitudinal beam in example_complex02.scad was