# cube-hook
Hook based on existing cube-hook
My office recently moved locations, and that meant a new cube farm for me. Each cube has one shelf and one coat hook.
I want to add a few more shelves using the rack system built into the cubes. To start, I copied the hook.
# Sketching
OpenJsCad is a library and a website for displaying and editing 3D jscad files. The site does not have a sketch feature. However, one does exist for OpenSCAD.
Gitlab makes it easy to host so that you can find the editor at https://johnwebbcole.gitlab.io/OpenSCAD-polygon-editor/
The polygon editor allows you to load an image and the scale it to fit. You can then trace a polygon around the object. Note that you can use the spline tool to get beautiful curves.
# Use it in OpenJsCad
The polygon in the OpenSCAD code panel, can be copied into a file hook.jscad.
I turned the polygon into a function by adding const Hook = () => to the front.
const Hook = () => polygon([[-19,39],[-24,34],[-25,33],[-31,33],[-36,47/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[-36.68,47.76] ,[-37.57,48.32] ,[-38.53,48.69] ,[-39.59,48.91] ,[-40.65,48.99],[-41,49/*1:4,0,-3,-1*/] ,[-42,48.6] ,[-42.89,48.11] ,[-43.7,47.51] ,[-44.43,46.8],[-45,46],[-45,21/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[-44.64,20.03] ,[-44.23,19.04] ,[-43.78,18.06] ,[-43.29,17.11] ,[-42.74,16.14] ,[-42.19,15.3] ,[-41.52,14.41] ,[-40.78,13.63],[-40,13/*1:-3,2,3,-3*/] ,[-39.25,12.32] ,[-38.44,11.71] ,[-37.59,11.17] ,[-36.63,10.65] ,[-35.68,10.2] ,[-34.68,9.8] ,[-33.7,9.46] ,[-32.71,9.17],[-32,9],[-30,10],[-29,11],[-29,16],[-28,17],[-24,17],[-23,15],[-24,-20],[-24,-21],[-25,-22],[-29,-22/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[-30.03,-22.1] ,[-31.06,-22.33] ,[-32.04,-22.69] ,[-32.98,-23.19] ,[-33.82,-23.83],[-34,-24/*1:2,2,-2,-3*/] ,[-34.54,-24.9] ,[-35.01,-25.86] ,[-35.4,-26.86] ,[-35.69,-27.85] ,[-35.89,-28.87] ,[-36,-29.88],[-36,-30/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[-35.9,-31.03] ,[-35.67,-32.06] ,[-35.31,-33.04] ,[-34.81,-33.98] ,[-34.17,-34.82],[-34,-35/*1:-2,2,1,-2*/] ,[-33.47,-35.9] ,[-32.77,-36.65],[-32,-37],[-27,-37],[-26,-38],[-26,-39],[-26,-69],[-26,-71],[-24,-72],[-6,-72],[-5,-72],[-4,-71],[41,5/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[41.24,6.02] ,[41.38,7.08] ,[41.44,8.16] ,[41.42,9.22] ,[41.33,10.27] ,[41.16,11.29],[41,12/*1:1,-4,-1,2*/] ,[40.49,12.89] ,[39.91,13.75] ,[39.28,14.57] ,[38.61,15.35],[38,16/*1:0,0,0,0*/] ,[37.22,16.65] ,[36.34,17.23] ,[35.44,17.72] ,[34.47,18.15] ,[33.48,18.5] ,[32.5,18.74] ,[31.44,18.92] ,[30.3,19],[30,19/*1:5,0,-3,0*/] ,[28.96,18.96] ,[27.95,18.84] ,[26.94,18.65] ,[25.94,18.37] ,[25.01,18],[25,18],[23,16],[8,-8],[5,-11],[1,-11],[-2,-9],[-4,-6],[-4,35],[-4,37],[-6,39],[-7,40],[-17,40]]);
One nice feature of the OpenSCAD-polygon-editor is that you can copy the polygon string back into the editor and modify it.
# Go 3D
To extrude, I'm using a jscad-utils function, poly2solid and the fit function to size the object to the measured sizes.
var hook_shape = Hook();
var hook = util.poly2solid(hook_shape, hook_shape, params.thickness + delta).fit([40, 55, 0]);
And you can see the results!
# Now Playing
# Running
The jscad project cube-hook uses gulp to create a dist/cube-hook.jscad file and watches your source for changes. You can drag the dist/cube-hook.jscad directory into the drop area on openjscad.org. Make sure you check Auto Reload and any time you save, gulp creates the dist/cube-hook.jscad file, and your model should refresh.
# start
npm start or npm run start will launch gulp, and create dist/cube-hook.jscad . It also watches for file changes and recreates the dist file.
# clean
Deletes the dist directory when you run npm run clean.
# inject
Run gulp to combine the source files and inject the dependent libraries with npm run inject. Libraries are found using a gulp plugin that looks for a jscad.json file in a package. These files are combined and minimized before injecting into the dist file.
# build
Build the vuepress static site by running npm run build. This script combines the readme with a vue-openjscad component to display a live view of the model. The baseUrl is set with the BASEPATH environment variable. It defaults to /cube-hook/. When hosted on GitLab, the .gitlab-ci.yml CICD file uses this script to publish to GitLab Pages.
See the vue-openjscad package for information on modifying options like the grid or initial camera position.
# serve
Run vuepress in dev mode with npm run serve. This script watches for file changes and hot reloads changes made to the README file. Changes to the model are not automatically reloaded; a manual reload is required.
# jscad-utils
The example project uses jscad-utils. These utilities are a set of utilities that make object creation and alignment easier. To remove it, npm uninstall --save jscad-utils, and remove the
util.init(CSG); line in cube-hook.jscad.
# Other libraries
You can search NPM for other jscad libraries. Installing them with NPM and running gulp should create a dist/cube-hook.jscad will all dependencies injected into the file.
For example, to load a RaspberryPi jscad library and show a Raspberry Pi Model B, install jscad-raspberrypi using npm install --save jscad-raspberrypi. Then return a combined BPlus group from the main() function.
main() {
util.init(CSG);
return RaspberryPi.BPlus().combine();
}
// ********************************************************
// Other jscad libraries are injected here. Do not remove.
// Install jscad libraries using NPM
// ********************************************************
// include:js
// endinject
# OpenJSCAD.org
If you publish the dist/cube-hook.jscad file, you can open it directly in
openjscad.org by using the following URL:
http://openjscad.org/# + the url to your file.
# Gist
You can save your file to a GitHub gist and append the URL to the raw gist.
# Gitlab Snippet
If you save to a gitlab public snippet, you can open it using the following URL:
https://openjscad.org/#https://gitlab.com/snippets/1795323/raw.jscad
Make sure you change the snippet id to the correct value and add .jscad at the end.
# License
ISC © John Cole