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Blender Script to create the five Platonic Solids

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Update: Made minor changes to code to account for running more than once to generate
multiple object instances

The Blender Code requires the Math Functions Addon be installed. It should be by default. I'm using Blender v2.76b.

Open the Scripting View, open the code (plat_solids.py) and run the script. It's pretty simple.

The Math Functions Addon is here (if I'm wrong and it's not installed by default):

Creating meshes from a math function is possible with Blender, you just need to activate : -- File > User Preferences > Addons > activate "Add Mesh: Extra Objects"
-- Add > Mesh > Extra Objects > Math Function > Regular Solid

There's this for FreeCAD:

https://github.com/Obijuan/3D-parts/tree/master/platonic-solid

and

This (Platonic Solids - Examples) for OpenJSCad:
"Recursive Include() Platonics"

http://openjscad.org/

I just got tired of trying to find just the basic Platonic Solids all in one place.

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FDM / FFF
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STL
Material
PLA
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