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Table of Contents OpenSCAD Links to get you started Installing How To's

OpenSCAD

This page does not yet have proper content for the class. These links are provided as reference and may not be part of any offered class.

Links to get you started

If you want to get started with OpenSCAD before taking the class:

• 10 things to know to get started with OpenSCAD.
• Introduction to OpenSCAD: What is it; why is it; what it does.
• Pictorial slideshow (PDF) introduction to OpenSCAD.
• 25 page slide show (PDF) on OpenSCAD
• First steps in creating an OpenSCAD model (from the OpenSCAD User Manual)
• Commented Example Projects
• Official OpenSCAD Documentation
• OpenSCAD User Manual

Installing

• Download and install OpenSCAD by OS.
  • (Direct link to files)

Note: The most recent release as of 2016-July-4 appears to be openscad-2015.03-3. Linux repos, even the PPAs, are likely out of date and don't support all the features discussed in the online manual. Consider installing from the source file Linux tar.gz if you want a more recent official version. If you want the bleeding edge, install from the github repo: https://github.com/openscad/openscad.

How To's

• How to use Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2) computing resources to render an OpenSCAD model as an STL.

Summary:

* Setup your AWS instance

* SFTP upload your file.scad to your AWS instance

* openscad -o file.stl file.scad

* SFTP download your new file.stl to your local machine

* View file using local STL viewer

• How to generate extruded 3D model from images in OpenSCAD via Inkscape and OpenSCAD compatible DXFs