From 81912e88e3610b9cb8b6f7c440b02d766f2ffd0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Petersen <geek@ex-nerd.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 02:24:19 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add flat/truncated teardrop module

Simple intersection method to implement a flat/truncated teardrop (technique gathered from comments made by whosawhatsis on various forums/blogs).
---
 teardrop.scad | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/teardrop.scad b/teardrop.scad
index a0578e2..136adce 100644
--- a/teardrop.scad
+++ b/teardrop.scad
@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ module teardrop(radius, length, angle) {
 	*/
 }
 
+/*
+ * Simple intersection method to implement a flat/truncated teardrop
+ */
+module flat_teardrop(radius, length, angle) {
+	intersection() {
+		rotate([0, angle, 0]) {
+			cube(size=[radius * 2, radius * 2, length], center=true);
+		}
+		teardrop(radius, length, angle);
+	}
+}
+
 module test_teardrop(){
     translate([0, -15, 0]) teardrop(5, 20, 90);
     translate([0, 0, 0]) teardrop(5, 20, 60);