{"id":1265,"date":"2015-03-23T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=10"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:48:10","slug":"how-to-trim-down-an-stl-file-using-scad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Trim  an STL file using SCAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found a nice VW key chain online. the author did share the source but made it in a program I don&#8217;t have so all I had to work with was the stl file&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/3d_tips\/vw\/VW1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I printed it without any issue but wanted to make a few changes. using the import function in SCAD I was able to add and subtract from the object easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a couple of lines to remove the background disk from the key chain&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/3d_tips\/vw\/VW2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/3d_tips\/vw\/vw.scad\">Download vw.scad here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>just as easy to add a post to a file to make it a tie tack&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or turn it 2D for the vinyl cutter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/3d_tips\/vw\/vw3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a nice VW key chain online. the author did share the source but made it in a program I don&#8217;t have so all I had to work with was the stl file&#8230;. I printed it without any issue but wanted to make a few changes. using the import function in SCAD I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}