--- title: Gardening With…OpenSCAD? | daily.dev description: A hobbyist named Mihai Oltean designed and built a vertical vegetable garden by first modeling the entire structure in OpenSCAD, the code-based CAD tool... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gardening-with-openscad--rlwxy0cyi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Gardening With…OpenSCAD? | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist named Mihai Oltean designed and built a vertical vegetable garden by first modeling the entire structure in OpenSCAD, the code-based CAD tool... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gardening-with-openscad--rlwxy0cyi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RlWxY0cYi.png og:image:alt: Gardening With…OpenSCAD? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Gardening With…OpenSCAD? **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist named Mihai Oltean designed and built a vertical vegetable garden by first modeling the entire structure in OpenSCAD, the code-based CAD tool typically used for 3D printing or CNC design files. Rather than using it to generate manufacturable parts, he used OpenSCAD purely to plan how all the physical pieces—screws, nuts, washers, and metal extrusion sections—would fit together, writing his own custom models for these components instead of relying on an existing parts library like NopSCADlib. The project is framed as a novel example of applying code-centric CAD planning to a non-electronic, physical build before constructing it in real life. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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