Rig Cad Foundations
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Constructive Solid Geometry in Rig Cad
Learn how primitives, Boolean operations, transforms, and a readable scene tree combine into robust, editable parametric models in Rig Cad.
Read articleRig Cad Editor Guide: The Five Core Panels
A concise guide to Rig Cad’s Add Object, Objects, Viewport, Properties, and Variables panels—and how selection connects them.
Read articleTransforms and Reference Frames in Rig Cad
Learn how position, rotation, and scale compose through local, parent, and world reference frames so Rig Cad features remain aligned, movable, and parametric.
Read articleOversize the Cutter: Reliable Booleans in Rig Cad
Use deliberate cutter margins to prevent coincident-face failures, preserve transformed through-cuts, and give smooth SDF subtraction room to resolve cleanly.
Read articlePost-Processing in Rig Cad: The Ordered Stack
How Rig Cad's ordered post-processing stack modifies solved geometry: Mirror, Cut Plane, Surface Offset, Shell, and the field-only Infill and Surface Pattern.
Read articleMesh Cleanup in Rig Cad: Repair, Remesh, Simplify
Choose the right Rig Cad mesh-cleanup step, repair topology defects, rebuild triangle distribution, and cut triangle count without losing required geometry.
Read articleExpressions and Variables in Rig Cad
The expression language behind every parametric Rig Cad project: grammar, functions, degrees vs radians, text, variable types, readouts, validators, handles.
Read articleSketches to Solids: Extrude, Revolve, and Offset
Draw an outline three ways, compose it with 2D booleans and repeats, then extrude, revolve or offset it once. Constant walls, Y-up revolves, sketch constraints.
Read articleFillets and Chamfers Without a Fillet Tool
Five ways to round or bevel an edge in Rig Cad: primitive corner radius, extrude edge profiles, SDF blends, Minkowski sums and Surface Offset, measured.
Read articleShell, Hollowing, and Wall Thickness for Printing
Hollow a part two ways in Rig Cad: a 2D inward offset plus floor, or the Shell post-processing step opened with a cutter. Then size the wall for FDM and resin.
Read articleExport for the Slicer: STL, 3MF, and Mesh Weight
Which export format a slicer wants, where a Rig Cad mesh's triangles come from, measured counts for precision and segments, and how to lighten a model first.
Read articleWhy Is My Model Slow? Precision, Bounds, Engines
A diagnostic path for slow Rig Cad projects: find the node, match the symptom, learn the cube law behind SDF precision, and pick engine and GPU settings.
Read articleRepeats and Arrays: Linear, Radial, and Parametric
Linear, Radial, Parametric and Path Repeat: tile profiles in 2D and extrude once, derive pitch from the host, vary copies with instance.i, avoid Mirror traps.
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