OpenSCAD
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| Developer(s) | Marius Kintel, Clifford Wolf |
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| Stable release | 2013.01
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| Operating system | Windows, Linux and Mac OS X |
| Type | CAD |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
OpenSCAD is a free software application for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is not an interactive modeler, but rather a 3D-compiler. OpenSCAD reads from a script and renders a 3D model from it. OpenSCAD is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It does constructive solid geometry (CSG). OpenSCAD can also extrude forms from AutoCAD DXF files.
As of 2011, it uses Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) as the basic Computational Solid Geometry engine, taking care of details such as intersection, difference and minkowski sums. The results can be rendered into 3D STL files.
It uses OpenCSG and OpenGL for fast previewing of models: rendering with CGAL (as with other CSG geometry engines) can sometimes take several minutes or hours.
Popularity
As of Feb 2013 over 4,000 projects on Thingiverse leverage OpenScad, MakerBot has a series of OpenScad Tutorials, and RepRap's wiki has an OpenScad page.
See also
- List of computer-aided design editors for architecture, engineering and construction
- PLaSM is the other open source scripting language for creating 3D objects
External links
- Official website
OpenSCAD User Manual at Wikibooks- Beginners Tutorial
- OpenScad Tutorials
Media related to OpenSCAD at Wikimedia Commons
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