Custom picoCAD Shape Pack
A downloadable shape pack
picoCAD is a really neat lo-fi 3D modelling tool with a very small range of default shapes: cubes, a few types of prism, square pyramids, and planes. However, it's possible to directly edit picoCAD project files to edit or even build new shapes. I put together this asset pack from some shapes I built this way; it includes picoCAD projects with 12 new shapes, plus a guide that includes the mesh data for each shape and instructions on how to add them directly to your own picoCAD projects.
Platonic solids
The Platonic solids are a set of mathematically foundational shapes. picoCAD includes one Platonic solid, the cube, but not the other four.
- Tetrahedron
- Octahedron
- Dodecahedron
- Icosahedron
Larger pyramids
picoCAD includes the square pyramid by default and the set of Platonic solids above includes the triangular pyramid (the tetrahedron), but no larger bases.
- Pentagonal
- Hexagonal
- Octagonal
Antiprisms
Antiprisms are like regular prisms in that they have the same shape on the ends and joining faces around the sides, but the joining faces are triangular (and there are twice as many).
- Triangular
- Square
- Pentagonal
- Hexagonal
- Octagonal
Guide
This asset pack includes a guide file that explains the various shapes included and explains how to add them to your own picoCAD projects. Fair warning, if you want to add any of these objects to an existing project or use more than one type in a single project, you will have to open a picoCAD project file in a text editor and directly paste the new data in. The guide explains how to do this!
Status | Released |
Category | Assets |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (9 total ratings) |
Author | Speak the Sky |
Tags | PICO-8, picoCAD |
Average session | A few hours |
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seems useful
very useful thanks!
No toroid 😢
make you'r own Toroid