Modular high scalable square tube slider

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Modular, highly scalable sliders for square rods or tubes. By changing one single parameter (profile width), you can adapt this slider to any square rod size you find. Even if the rod has some holes in its surface, this slider will work. No support is needed for any file. This design has been printed successfully on a Prusa I3 clone. To adapt the design to your square rod or tube dimensions, open slider23_5_constants.scad in OpenSCAD. Change wkl=23.5; into the value of your measured profile length, such as wkl=10. Save the file and open one of the other OpenSCAD files you need. Set drucken=1 for compiling by pressing F6. After that, you can export the STL file by pressing the STL icon in the editor window. To adapt the design, you'll need a copy of the open-source software OpenSCAD from http://www.openscad.org/, and these additional libraries, or you'll get a compiler error in OpenSCAD. External libraries used and included in download are: Parametric pulley - lots of tooth profiles by https://www.thingiverse.com/droftarts https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16627 Parametric Timing Belt for OpenSCAD by https://www.thingiverse.com/0scar https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3205320 External libraries NOT included in download are: This means you'll have to download them first and include them properly in your installation of OpenSCAD. MCAD library from https://github.com/openscad/MCAD Download with Git directly by cloning the whole library: 1. Open a shell and change into OpenSCAD's libraries directory: >cd ~/.local/share/OpenSCAD/libraries/ 2. Clone MCAD: https://github.com/openscad/MCAD.git or download a zipped version, unzip it into OpenSCAD's libraries folder: ~/.local/share/OpenSCAD/libraries/ For a more detailed explanation, see https://reprap.org/wiki/MCAD