[BlindMath] Help in Determining Engineering Design Accommodations

[nspohn0 at gmail.com]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for the suggestions. This is helpful information that I will use
as I continue to navigate my engineering design course.

Regards,
Nic 



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From: rjaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> 
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Subject: RE: [BlindMath] Help in Determining Engineering Design
Accommodations

Hello Nic:

     In response to your note. The only accessible CAD tool for the totally
blind is OpenScad. That is the good news. The bad news is that OpenScad does
not function at all like other CAD packages. Here is a small piece of code
that creates a stack of cubes.

// Create a stack of offset cuboids. 
module cubestackoffs()
{
  union()
  {
    cube([10, 10, 1]);
    cube([8, 8, 2]);
    cube([6, 6, 3]);
    cube([4, 4, 4]);
  }
}
// Build the stack by calling the module cubestackoffs.
cubestackoffs();

OpenScad is a combination of programming language, set theory and geometry.
The mindset needed to create an object is different from that used in other
CAD packages.
For your course, I suggest the following:
1. Use a human reader to help you.
2. Use clay, Legos, erector set, etc. to make an object and then scan it.
Colaborating with others will be difficult, sighted people can see an image
on the screen. Your source code will be incomprehensible.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Robert