Topic: OpenSCAD is FREE software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. All OSes Supported

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OpenSCAD is FREE software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. All Major Modern Operating Systems Supported ...

About OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD is software for creating solid 3D CAD models. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in creating computer-animated movies.

OpenSCAD is not an interactive modeller. Instead it is something like a 3D-compiler that reads in a script file that describes the object and renders the 3D model from this script file. This gives you (the designer) full control over the modelling process and enables you to easily change any step in the modelling process or make designs that are defined by configurable parameters.

OpenSCAD provides two main modelling techniques: First there is constructive solid geometry (aka CSG) and second there is extrusion of 2D outlines. Autocad DXF files can be used as the data exchange format for such 2D outlines. In addition to 2D paths for extrusion it is also possible to read design parameters from DXF files. Besides DXF files OpenSCAD can read and create 3D models in the STL and OFF file formats.

Download FOR:

macOS
System requirements: OS X 10.9 or newer


Windows
System requirements: Windows XP or newer on x86 32/64 bit


Linux
Debian / Ubuntu / Kubuntu
OpenSCAD is available in the repositories of most recent distributions (Currently missing in Ubuntu 18.04).

   
Fedora
OpenSCAD is available in Fedora official repositories.


openSUSE
OpenSCAD is available from software.opensuse.org


Other Linux
The AppImage package is intended to run on any recent Linux distribution. For more information about how AppImages work, see the AppImage WebSite.



BSD
NetBSD (>=6.1)

Set up pkgin and run this command:

               # pkgin install openscad
            
FreeBSD (>=10)

               # pkg install openscad
            

OpenBSD
OpenSCAD is available for amd64, i386 and macppc in OpenBSD packages:

               # pkg_add openscad
            

Other Systems
It's possible to build OpenSCAD on other systems as long as a C++ compiler and the prerequisite software libraries are available.


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Source Code

You can also access the latest source code on github: openscad/openscad on github

https://www.openscad.org/index.html

https://www.openscad.org/downloads.html

https://github.com/openscad/openscad