dmote-keycap
produces three-dimensional geometry for keycaps: Either
featureless maquettes for use in quick previews, or proper keycaps you can
print and use on any common mechanical keyboard.
dmote-keycap
is both a library for scad-clj
applications that draw
keyboards, and a CLI (command-line interface) utility. Both offer:
dmote-keycap
has no support for stabilizers, raised legends, or multiple
materials (printing to simulate “double shot” injection moulding).
To run the utility and generate a printable model, enter lein run
at your
command line, in this folder. You must have Leiningen installed for that.
The CLI utility uses what the library exposes as dmote-kgeycap.models/keycap
.
That function takes a number of parameters and returns a scad-clj
specification. Most of them are mirrored in the CLI. Parameters in both
contexts are documented here.
For the use of dmote-keycap
as a function library in keyboard design, two
other namespaces are likely to be useful. dmote-keycap.data
exposes various
raw data and dmote-keycap.measure
exposes functions for calculating how much
space a keycap model would need.
Printing advice is available here.
Copyright © 2019–2022 Viktor Eikman
This software is distributed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) v2.0 or any later version thereof. This software may also be made available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), v3.0 or any later version thereof, as a secondary license hereby granted under the terms of the EPL.
^1: Key size is measured in a traditional unit. 1 u is 19.05 mm (0.75”) per key mount. A 1 u cap is smaller at about 18.25 mm to allow for space between caps on adjacent mounts. For the same reason, a 2 u cap is more than twice as wide as a 1 u cap, and so on.
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