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Parameterized ergonomic keyboard
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Are there bottom plates for every model? #76

Open gukiboy opened 2 years ago

gukiboy commented 2 years ago

I could not find a 4x5 bottom plate for the case. Neither loading the clojure file creates it. Or does it create somewhere else than in things?

Thanks in advance!

jaredjennings commented 2 years ago

Loading dactyl.clj from this original dactyl-keyboard creates (among others) dactyl-bottom-left.scad and dactyl-bottom-right.scad files in the things directory, with whatever settings are set in dactyl.clj. (Rendering the STLs using OpenSCAD is then up to you.) The machinery that makes different output files for different keyboard sizes was added by tshort to the Dactyl Manuform, but does not exist in adereth's original code.

Come to think of it, given that you mention a "bottom plate," rather than a curved bottom piece, you probably aren't talking about the original Dactyl anyway, but the Dactyl Manuform. I, too, found the bottom plate missing. I used OpenSCAD to extrude the gaskety thing described by the dxf file about a millimeter thick, printed that, painted it with Plasti-Dip, and hot-glued it to the bottom of my keyboard. The middle of the bottom is exposed to this day. Not great, but functional.