Welcome to topocad! This repo contains utilities for topography-based 3D modeling using CAD + python scripting tools. To get started, check out the code or the example notebook.
Here's an example of a 3D topo model of Boulder, Colorado. The three spatial axes are to-scale and based on the DEM from USGS. The model is designed to be printed at a footprint of approximately 100mm x 100mm with approximately 7 pixels per mm. The 10m DEM was coarsened by 3x to produce the model. The model took 6 minutes to create on an M1 Macbook Air.
1/3 arc-second (approx. 10m) DEM from USGS: https://apps.nationalmap.gov/downloader/
CAD scripting is with CADQuery: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Autodesk model viewer web app (free): https://viewer.autodesk.com/
Services for making 3D prints of topo models: https://www.shapeways.com/ | https://craftcloud3d.com/
git clone git@github.com:grantbuster/topocad.gitcd topocadpip install -e .conda install -c conda-forge cadquery