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Use AutoCAD's "Extrude" and "Revolve" commands to turn 2-D designs into 3-D models. "Extrude" is how 3-D modelers to refer to the technique of stretching a 2-D shape into 3-D space. AutoCAD performs ...

Editor’s Note: CAD files associated with this column can be downloaded here. Figure 1A shows a sketched profile. The dimensions and shape are arbitrary. It is simply an example of a routine 2D sketch ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I implemented a very rough module called bevel_extrude in one of my openscad libraries, which I find I'm using all the time. It basically ...