#ART OF ILLUSION SOFTWARE INSTALL#
#ART OF ILLUSION SOFTWARE FREE#

Treat one AoI unit as one mm, and experiment by building objects of about the size that you want to end up making. I am assuming that you will be working in millimeters as the standard engineering unit. However, do make sure you explore and get familiar with Boolean Modelling (in the AoI 'Tools' dropdown) and the use of the grid (under the 'Scene' dropdown). It's important to learn without the added pressure of having to solve a specific design problem too. If you are going to use AoI for CAD (for RepRap or for any other engineering) start by getting familiar with it using its own documentation and examples don't begin by trying to design an entire mobile phone casing (or whatever you actually need) first off.

#ART OF ILLUSION SOFTWARE INSTALL#

Note that on some systems you may need to be the superuser or administrator to do this, as it will install a file on your machine. Once you have installed it, go to the Scripts and Plugins manager (in the AoI 'Tools' dropdown) and get all the scripts and plugins from the web (you won't use all of them, but they're quick to download, and this is simpler than deciding which you want and which you don't). The AoI website has detailed instructions for downloading AoI and getting it working under a wide range of operating systems. However, we have found a number of how-to hints that help when using AoI for mechanical design, and those are documented here. There is a lot of good clear documentation that comes with AoI, and it is not the intention of this page to duplicate any of that.

#ART OF ILLUSION SOFTWARE FREE#

AoI was written by Peter Eastman and others and is completely free and open-source. However, it has an extraodinarily minimal, wide-spanning and intuitive user interface that is very easy to learn, and it has the ability to output solids as STL files STL is the standard format for rapid-prototyped parts. AoI is not intended as an engineering computer-aided design (CAD) tool, but rather as a three-dimensional design system for animated computer graphics. We have decided to use Art of Illusion ( AoI for short) as the design system for RepRap. Hints on Using Art of Illusion for RepRap 0. 2 Improvements to AoI that would be useful.Hint: Tidy the triangulation before writing an STL file

Hint: Convert complicated objects to a triangle mesh, but beware approximations Hint: Creating rotational symmetries is easy if you know how Hint: Keep track of what you are doing by using descriptive names Hint: Make and position all the building blocks first Hint: avoid doing booleans on coincident surfaces 1 Hints on Using Art of Illusion for RepRap.

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