• (if on Mac) install Parallels
  • make sure to Optimize Parallels for Games
• install LAYOUT into Windows
  • Make sure to extract the installer first (Extract All)
  • Configure as offline PC
  • Do not send data back
  • Finish install
  • Run LAYOUT
  • (in the top ribbon View -> Enter Coherence)

Let us experience the only good piece of software ever written, LAYOUT! 💖

(LAYOUT will form the foundation for so much of the stuff we do in this class; I recommend spending lots of time getting comfortable in it 🙂👍)

The ability to rapidly make 2D drawings of parts is beyond OP and literally nobody knows it (except for me and my friend John) 🚀 Have I mentioned John yet? Maybe he'll give a guest lecture! 🤖

We will also use calipers. A caliper is like a ruler, much like how C is like Java 😬😇 Basically, calipers are what they should have been telling you about in high-school instead of protractors. Alas. There's no time like the present. What a week to be alive! 📏

Finally, we'll take our first steps from 2D -> 3D in OpenSCAD.

• A- Level
  • 1x 3D-printed scraper from the built-in files on the printer in NOT-green
    • You can use this to clean off the print bed
    • NOTE: this is a knife, albeit a very dull one
  • (Optional) 1x 3D-printed pyramid or house from last homework in NOT-green
  • 1x 3D-printed Pac-Man in NOT-green
    • NOTE: re-design this in LAYOUT to match the green Pac-Man as close as possible
  • 2x 3D-printed names in NOT-green
    • 1x for one team member
    • 1x for the other team member
    • NOTE: using the Text tool is definitely NOT allowed
    • NOTE: otherwise, do whatever you want so long as...
      • I can read it
      • your name is a single piece of plastic
      • you used the fillet tool at least once
      • (also maybe don't make it like...huge)
    • NOTE: leave these on your shelf for the rest of the semester; this is your shelf now
  • 2x 3D-printed puzzle pieces in NOT-green
    • 1x should slip over the green jig's post
      • NOTE: the circles on the green jig are concentric
      • NOTE: the outside of the second puzzle piece should be a circle (like a small bottle opener) with the same radius as the green jig's (outer) circular post
    • 1x should slip into the green jig's hole
      • NOTE: it should be the same thickness as the green jig (when dropped into the hole, it should be flush with the top surface of the green jig)
• A Level
  • Everything from all previous levels.
  • Choose 1:
    • 1x 3D-printed replica of the jig itself in NOT-green
    • 1x printed screenshot of 2-3+ hours of progress at https://online.tipp10.com/en/training/
      • NOTE: please consider choosing this option if you cannot yet type quickly without looking; no one is born knowing how to walk/bike/skateboard/juggle/type without looking; if you don't know how to yet, there's no time like the present! 🙂👍
      • NOTE: you'll need to make an account
• A+ Level:
  • Everything from all previous levels.
  • 1x Cantor Dust castle exactly like mine NOTE: I designed this in LAYOUT and recommend you try doing the same 🙂👍
  • 1x visually-pleasing fractal art object of your own creation ✨🙂

• You can use a caliper 3 different ways (outside, inside, depth.)
  • If you don't know/forget, then ask! 🙂👍

LAYOUT is a DXF editor that feels a lot like Vim to me.

It may be painful to learn, but once you know it, vroom vroom 🚀

• draw a line or circle or box
  • NOTE: holding Shift while drawing a line will snap its angle to 15 degree increments
    • NOTE: if this does NOT work in Parallels, select Optimize for Games in Parallels; (guide here)
• snap your mouse-click to...
  • zero (the origin); NOTE: pressing 'z' also "does the click for you"
  • endpoint (of a line/arc)
  • middle (of a line/arc)
  • quad of a line/arc
  • perpendicular to a line
• select or deselect...
  • all
  • quality -> 0-5
• you can do these things with a selection...
  • Backspace to delete
  • move (translate)
  • Scale
  • rotate
  • linear cOpy
  • Rotational copy
  • mirror in X or Y
• fillet two lines
• Measure distance between two points
• . hides/shows the dots
• 'j'oin two lines (removes the dot)
• set quality -> 0-5 by clicking
• two-click intersect
• one-click Intersect

• Help -> Keyboard Equivalents shows all the keyboard shortcuts;
• the Clean button on the right-hand side will fix up your drawing (try this if OpenSCAD is mad)
• if you zoom around to fast and can't find your drawing, click the Extents button at the bottom
• the Offset tool can be very useful for this homework; it doesn't have a default hotkey, but I tend to set it to F8 in File -> Configure Preferences... -> `Hotkeys
• you can fillet with radius zero; this creates a sharp corner and can also be used to trim
• as with many tools in LAYOUT, right-clicking on the Circle icon will give you many other cool tools beyond what you get by pressing c on the keyboard

• If you want OpenSCAD on your own personal computer, I recommend installing a Development Snapshot and enabling Manifold. This will make rendering (to STL) muuuch faster.

• Use the Measure tool in LAYOUT to check your work. (How far is it from this corner to this corner, etc.)

• You can scale and rotate parts inside of Bambu Studio. This can be a handy trick, though is a little sus (why was your drawing the wrong size to begin with? 🤔)

dxf_filename = "pacman.dxf";
extrusion_height = 3.0;
$fn = 128; // number of line segments used when discretizing a complete circle
linear_extrude(extrusion_height)
  scale([25.4, 25.4, 25.4]) // NOTE: OMAX exports in inches
    import(dxf_filename);