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Ruckus:   Procedural CAD For Weirdos
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Ruckus: Procedural CAD For Weirdos

Cliff L. Biffle <code@cliffle.com>

This document introduces Ruckus, a procedural CAD system in the same family as OpenSCAD and ImplicitCAD.

    1 Prerequisites

      1.1 Operating System

      1.2 Graphics Card

      1.3 Racket

      1.4 Ruckus Source Code

        1.4.1 Using the Package

        1.4.2 The Hard Way

    2 Getting Your Ruckus On

      2.1 Writing a Design

      2.2 Combining Objects

      2.3 Preparing for Printing

      2.4 Improving Export Quality

    3 Ruckus Language Reference

      3.1 Coordinates

      3.2 Contexts

      3.3 Basic Types

      3.4 3D Primitives

      3.5 2D Primitives

      3.6 Combinators

      3.7 Transforms

    4 The Ruckus Tools

      4.1 Visualization

        4.1.1 ruckus-3d

        4.1.2 ruckus-2d

      4.2 Export

        4.2.1 ruckus-export-surface

        4.2.2 ruckus-export-outline

    5 Internals

      5.1 The Math Bits

        5.1.1 Implicit Surfaces and the Function Representation

        5.1.2 Signed Distance Fields

        5.1.3 The Lipschitz Criterion