#Openscad import how to#

Then you need to configure the OpenSCAD executable path.First you need to install OpenSCAD on your computer.

You’re of course welcome to try, but you may be disappointed. Of course this assumes you’ve already downloaded and installed FreeCAD! FreeCAD works well on Windows and Linux (can be installed easily on Ubuntu), but the Mac version is less up-to-date and suffers from Mac-specific bugs, and for this reason I cannot recommend it on this OS at this time.

#Openscad import how to#

How to configure FreeCAD to import OpenSCAD parts I don’t like CSG work flow as I find it too primitive and a hassle to edit, but it beats the hell out of trying to figure out OpenSCAD syntax, or modeling the part from scratch using the STL as reference (which I had been doing until now).įor example here’s the AO-101 x-end-idle_ACME.scad file in OpenSCAD: scad source files and generates a CSG tree.

Well I tackled it in the past week and found out you can get surprisingly good results. As a CAD user with more than 15 years of experience working with a few 2D and 3D CAD packages (among them the ubiquitous AutoCAD and parametric programs such as Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, Solid Edge and SolidWorks), I find it extremely hard to understand how anyone can design by programming lines of code, even less how can anyone analyze and modify OpenSCAD parts made by others.Ī couple of guys have worked on an OpenSCAD module for FreeCAD and it was first included in the /1830 stable version which came out last February. I’m guessing I am not the only one who simply won’t put any energy into trying to learn OpenSCAD.