Welcome to Tangible’s documentation!

Tangible is a Python library to convert data into tangible 3D models. It generates code for different backends like OpenSCAD or ImplicitSCAD. It is inspired by projects like OpenSCAD and d3.js.

The difference from Projects like SolidPython is that Tangible is a modular system with an intermediate representation of objects that is capable of generating code for different backends, not just OpenSCAD. Additionally, its main focus is not general CAD, but printable 3D visualization of data.

The workflow is as follows:

Python code => Intermediate representation (AST) => Programmatic CAD code
=> STL file => Slicer => G code => 3D printer => Tangible object

Source code: https://github.com/dbrgn/tangible

Contributions are very welcome! Please open an issue or a pull request on Github.

Table of Contents

Using the library

• Installing
• Usage
  • Preprocessing Data
  • Creating a Shape Instance
  • Rendering the Code
• Examples
  • A Simple Tower
  • Multi Dimensional Data
  • Reading Data from CSV
  • Grouped Data
  • Creating Custom Shapes from AST

Reference

• Shapes
  • Shape Types
  • Base Classes
  • Inheritance Diagram
• Scales
• Utils
• AST
  • 2D Shapes
  • 3D Shapes
  • Transformations
  • Boolean operations
  • Extrusions
• Backends
  • OpenSCAD Backend

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page