updates for v4.4.3

Signed-off-by: Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,33 @@
 
 Included is a summary of changes to the project, by version. Details can be found in the commit history.
 
+## v4.4.3
+
+### Features
+
+* Windowed frame wall pieces were made for the "clean" front/back walls that line up with the extended sides.
+
+### Improvements
+
+* The inner wall piece has been thickened, bringing its surface closer to the end of the outer wall windowed frame
+  pieces, making the window less deep and the inner wall easier to see.
+* The inner wall piece has been shrunken on the Z in order to leave some material on the outer wall and thus improve the
+  friction fit and clamp of the outer wall piece, which was too weakened by the unsupported top and bottom otherwise.
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+* Documentation updates, especially around the printing of parts.
+* Corrected the names of some pieces that were accidentally duplicated from the file they were copied from rather than
+  what they were, or otherwise didn't match the standard pattern (such as it is).
+
+## v4.4.2
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Fix a regression with the small button screw-in space cutting into the frame wall supports. The screw-in space is
+  potentially more important for some nuts than the thickness of the frame wall supports, so the latter have been
+  thinned slightly.
+
 ## v4.4.1
 
 ### Features

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ design before sending it to a custom builder? Do you just love having your space
 because you keep making different variants, colorways, and so on? Or do you simply want a good stick on the cheap, and
 know someone or a library with a 3D printer? The Buildable Stick System may be the project for you!
 
+**Join the project IRC channel: [#buildable-stick-system @
+Randomus](https://webirc.randomus.net/#buildable-stick-system)!**
+
 ![An example of stick components displayed in OpenSCAD](docs/blown-up-demo.png)
 
 [OpenSCAD-based illustration of how the components for an overhang panel-based stick fit together.]

demo/all-together-demo-extended-with-windows.scad

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2023 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+include <parameters.scad>
+include <components.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/extended/side.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-aux-and-neutrik.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-windowed-horiz-stripes.scad>
+use <panels/inset/lever-and-dir_arc-plus-w-30mm-panel.scad>
+use <panels/inset/sega-2p-plus-one-plus-control-panel-with-mount.scad>
+use <misc/decorative-plate-24mm-button.scad>
+use <misc/decorative-plate-dir_arc-plus-w-30mm-and-sega-2p-plus-one.scad>
+use <misc/decorative-plate-dir_arc-plus-w-30mm-and-sega-2p-plus-one-plates.scad>
+use <misc/dustwasher-lsx-nobi.scad>
+
+top_panel_color        = "#5B6579";
+bottom_panel_color     = "#8E9089";
+frame_top_bottom_color = "#8E9089";
+frame_side_color       = "#8E9089";
+top_deco_color         = "#8E9089";
+
+color(top_panel_color) translate([-panel_x/2, 0, frame_z/2-panel_z+0.01]) lever_and_dir_arc_w_30mm_panel();
+color(top_panel_color) translate([panel_x/2, 0, frame_z/2-panel_z+0.01]) sega_2p_plus_one_plus_control_panel_with_mount();
+color(frame_side_color) translate([-frame_x/2+4, 0, -2.5]) extended_left_or_right_frame_piece();
+color(frame_side_color) translate([frame_x/2-4, 0, -2.5]) mirror([1, 0, 0]) extended_left_or_right_frame_piece();
+color(frame_top_bottom_color) translate([-frame_x/2+4, 0, -2.5])  horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();
+color(frame_top_bottom_color) translate([frame_x/2-4, 0, -2.5])  horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();
+color(frame_top_bottom_color) translate([-frame_x/2+4, 0, -2.5]) rotate([180, 0, 0]) front_or_back_aux_and_neutrik_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();
+color(frame_top_bottom_color) translate([frame_x/2-4, 0, -2.5]) rotate([180, 180, 0]) front_or_back_aux_and_neutrik_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();
+color(bottom_panel_color) translate([-panel_x/2, 0, -5-frame_z/2+5]) panel();
+color(bottom_panel_color) translate([panel_x/2, 0, -5-frame_z/2+5]) panel();
+
+/* color(top_deco_color) translate([0, 0, 3+frame_z/2-4]) dir_arc_plus_w_30mm_and_sega_2p_plus_one_decorative_plate_of_plates(); */
+color(top_deco_color) translate([0, 0, 3+frame_z/2-panel_z]) dir_arc_plus_w_30mm_and_sega_2p_plus_one_decorative_plate();
+color(top_deco_color) translate([-170, 20, 3+frame_z/2-panel_z]) lsx_nobi_dustwasher();
+color(top_deco_color) translate([panel_x-24, 30, 3+frame_z/2-panel_z]) button_24mm_decorative_plate();

docs/printing-and-materials.md

@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ My preferred settings are 3 wall loops with 20% gyroid sparse infill. This gives
 strength against bowing forces, but something more default, like 2 wall loops, 15% grid sparse infill, is fine and does
 not lead to a weak enclosure.
 
+### Supports and Positioning
+
+All of the parts are designed to be printed outside-face-down. The bevels are at an angle (45 degrees) that should print
+fine with no supports. Make sure everything is aligned properly on your plate so that the flat face you will look at the
+most is on the bottom.
+
+The only exception to this is the interconnect piece(s), which are not visible and need a support to print. Maybe one
+day I'll rejigger these.
+
 ### Working With Flatness
 
 A lot of the pieces are long and flat, so I recommend really dialing in your printer settings. The frame pieces make
@@ -20,15 +29,36 @@ uniform lines that create reflection patterns on long, flat surfaces. This can b
 panels and their decorative plates, since they're what you're looking at 90% of the time, and the holes break up a
 perfect pattern, making the long lines stand out even more.
 
-* **Top panels:** using a non-uniform pattern reduces if not eliminates the problem of the surface catching the light,
-  but for some patterns, it may come at the expense of time. Other patterns may improve beyond monotonic, but hilbert
-  curve seems to be the gold standard.
-* **Circle-centric decorative plates:** don't use complex patterns like Archimedean chords on decorative plates, as they
-  seem to have issues with filling curves and you still want to try to maximize contact with walls. Concentric is great
-  here if you dial it in.
+Some specific parts are worth some additional notes:
 
-The concentric pattern is a good default and prints awesome parts, with the only exception being the top panels, which
-benefit from using a Hilbert curve initial layer pattern instead of concentric.
+* **Top panels:** using a non-uniform pattern reduces if not eliminates the problem of the surface catching the light,
+  but for some patterns, it may come at the expense of time.
+    * **Avoid:** monotonic.
+    * **Good for the time:** Archimedean chords create the look of a circular ripple radiating out the center, and
+      depending on the material, you may not even notice it much, so it's a pretty good look/speed balance.
+    * **Great if you can wait:** hilbert curve leaves no discernable pattern on most materials, but some high gloss,
+      high contrast materials may show the winding pattern at some angles --- consider Archimedean chords for these.
+* **Circle-centric decorative plates:** simple ones could be fine in whatever, but the ones for action buttons end up
+  having lots of weird interaction points.
+    * **Avoid:** none; monotonic doesn't look *good*, but the plates don't have enough surface area for the pattern to
+      stand out too much.
+    * **Decent:** concentric is generally good, but you can get some pitting when the pattern radiating away from
+      buttons collides with other patterns, because none of the geometry lines up well.
+    * **Great:** Archimedean chords, just crank up the infill/wall overlap to avoid pits on the edges.
+* **Frame walls with Neutrik or aux button cutouts:** a reduced but similar problem with the action button decorative
+  plates, the circles near each other create weird interactions with the walls.
+    * **Avoid:** concentric, again, has problems with pitting where geometries clash.
+    * **Decent:** monotonic is pretty decent here, and you probably won't look at the sides too much, so maybe it
+      doesn't bother you.
+    * **Great:** Archimedean chords again, with the same infill/wall overlap as decorative plates.
+* **Flush frame walls:** you can pretty much do whatever you like here.
+    * **Great:** concentric produces an interesting pattern and you won't have collision problems in a rectangle.
+    * **Essentially great:** Archimedean chords yet again, you may just not like the pattern as much as the end result
+      of concentric.
+
+The Archimedean chord pattern is a good default and prints awesome parts, with the only exception being the top panels,
+which benefit from using a Hilbert curve initial layer pattern instead, though you may be happy enough with Archimedean
+chord.
 
 ## Materials
 

src/components.scad

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ module rocker_20mm_mount() {
 // space for a neutrik D mount or 24mm button --- Z is meant to leave some lip now that frames
 // are primarily printed on their side
 module frame_cutout() {
-	cube([30.5, 8, frame_z-(panel_z*3)], center=true);
+	cube([35, 8, frame_z-(panel_z*3)], center=true);
 }
 
 // bank of three 24mm buttons, commonly on a frame face

src/frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-inner-wall.scad

@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ module mount_column_cutout() {
 	}
 }
 
-module front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
+module front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_base_piece() {
 	difference() {
-		front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+		// Z is scaled so that some part of the original part inner wall is retained
+		scale([1, 1, inner_frame_z_decorative_scale]) front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
 		// minus the outer wall
 		translate([0, -(frame_y-frame_wall)/2, 0]) cube([frame_x, frame_wall, frame_z], center=true);
 		// minus half of the mounting posts (the other half provided by the outer wall)
@@ -28,4 +29,11 @@ module front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
 	}
 }
 
+module front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
+	front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_base_piece();
+	// extend the outward face 2mm in order to have it cut deeper into the frame outer wall
+	translate([0, -(frame_y-frame_wall)/2, 0]) rotate([-90, 0, 0]) linear_extrude(height=2) projection()
+		translate([0, 0, 50]) rotate([90, 0, 0]) front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_base_piece();
+}
+
 front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_piece();

src/frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed-horiz-stripes.scad

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module front_stripe() {
 	cube([frame_x-(frame_mount_column_width*1.75)*2, frame_wall, 6], center=true);
 }
 
-module windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece() {
+module horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece() {
 	difference() {
 		front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
 		// subtract frame wall windows
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ module windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece() {
 	}
 }
 
-windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();

src/frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed.scad

@@ -8,13 +8,17 @@ include <components.scad>
 use <front-or-back.scad>
 use <front-or-back-inner-wall.scad>
 
+module front_or_back_window() {
+	translate([0, -frame_y/2, 0])
+		cube([frame_x-frame_mount_column_width*3.5, (frame_wall+panel_support_width)*2,
+			frame_z-panel_z*3], center=true);
+}
+
 module windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece() {
 	difference() {
 		front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
 		// subtract frame wall window
-		translate([0, -frame_y/2, 0])
-			cube([frame_x-frame_mount_column_width*3.5, (frame_wall+panel_support_width)*2,
-				frame_z-panel_z*3], center=true);
+		front_or_back_window();
 		// subtract the inner wall area that will be provided by the other piece
 		front_or_back_inner_wall_frame_piece();
 	}

src/frames/pieces/box/side-inner-wall.scad

@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ module mount_column_cutout() {
 	}
 }
 
-module side_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
+module side_inner_wall_frame_base_piece() {
 	difference() {
-		side_box_frame_piece();
+		// Z is scaled so that some part of the original part inner wall is retained
+		scale([1, 1, inner_frame_z_decorative_scale]) side_box_frame_piece();
 		// minus the outer wall
 		translate([-(frame_x-frame_wall)/2, 0, 0]) cube([frame_wall, frame_y, frame_z], center=true);
 		// minus half of the mounting posts (the other half provided by the outer wall)
@@ -32,4 +33,11 @@ module side_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
 	}
 }
 
+module side_inner_wall_frame_piece() {
+	side_inner_wall_frame_base_piece();
+	// extend the outward face 2mm in order to have it cut deeper into the frame outer wall
+	translate([-(frame_x-frame_wall)/2, 0, 0]) rotate([0, 90, 0]) linear_extrude(height=2) projection()
+		translate([0, 0, 50]) rotate([0, -90, 0]) side_inner_wall_frame_base_piece();
+}
+
 side_inner_wall_frame_piece();

src/frames/pieces/box/side-windowed-horiz-stripes.scad

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module side_stripe() {
 	cube([frame_wall, frame_y-(frame_mount_column_width*1.75)*2, 6], center=true);
 }
 
-module windowed_side_box_frame_piece() {
+module horiz_striped_windowed_side_box_frame_piece() {
 	difference() {
 		side_box_frame_piece();
 		// subtract frame wall windows
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ module windowed_side_box_frame_piece() {
 	}
 }
 
-windowed_side_box_frame_piece();
+horiz_striped_windowed_side_box_frame_piece();

src/frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-windowed-backslashes.scad

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2024 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+include <parameters.scad>
+include <components.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed-backslashes.scad>
+
+module backslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side() {
+	difference() {
+		backslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+		// ...minus the frame wall and lip on the left
+		translate([-frame_x/2+frame_wall/2, 0, 0]) cube([frame_wall, frame_y, frame_z], center=true);
+	}
+}
+
+backslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();

src/frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-windowed-forwardslashes.scad

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2024 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+include <parameters.scad>
+include <components.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed-forwardslashes.scad>
+
+module forwardslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side() {
+	difference() {
+		forwardslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+		// ...minus the frame wall and lip on the left
+		translate([-frame_x/2+frame_wall/2, 0, 0]) cube([frame_wall, frame_y, frame_z], center=true);
+	}
+}
+
+forwardslashes_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();

src/frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-windowed-horiz-stripes.scad

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2024 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+include <parameters.scad>
+include <components.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed-horiz-stripes.scad>
+
+module horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side() {
+	difference() {
+		horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+		// ...minus the frame wall and lip on the left
+		translate([-frame_x/2+frame_wall/2, 0, 0]) cube([frame_wall, frame_y, frame_z], center=true);
+	}
+}
+
+horiz_striped_windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();

src/frames/pieces/extended/front-or-back-clean-for-extended-side-windowed.scad

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2024 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+include <parameters.scad>
+include <components.scad>
+use <frames/pieces/box/front-or-back-windowed.scad>
+
+module windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side() {
+	difference() {
+		windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece();
+		// ...minus the frame wall and lip on the left
+		translate([-frame_x/2+frame_wall/2, 0, 0]) cube([frame_wall, frame_y, frame_z], center=true);
+	}
+}
+
+windowed_front_or_back_box_frame_piece_for_extended_side();

src/frames/pieces/extended/side.scad

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ module side_frame_piece_extension() {
 	}
 }
 
-module extended_bottom_left_or_right_frame_piece() {
+module extended_left_or_right_frame_piece() {
 	difference() {
 		side_box_frame_piece();
 		// chop off the old edge which is getting replaced with the extension
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ module extended_bottom_left_or_right_frame_piece() {
 	translate([-frame_x/2+frame_bevel_height*2, 0, 0]) rotate([0, -90, 0]) side_frame_piece_extension();
 }
 
-extended_bottom_left_or_right_frame_piece();
+extended_left_or_right_frame_piece();

src/parameters.scad

@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ panel_z = 5;
 // inside the frame
 inner_frame_z = frame_z - (panel_z * 2);
 
+// "windowed" pieces chop out the inner wall of the frame as a separate piece in order
+// to print it a different color/way/style. to improve friction fit, it is only the below
+// value scale of the whole wall, so that the rest of the wall is retained on the outer
+// piece, which helps clamp the two together (and helps the panels clamp it all)
+inner_frame_z_decorative_scale = 0.95;
+
 // how much the top plate x/y is expanded to overhang the frame
 // note that this is relative to the top plate (so the wall is added back)
 panel_overhang_amount = 8.5;