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OpenSCAD is a free and easy programming language for expressing ideas for 3D printing.

• Openscad For Loop
• Openscad Cheat Sheet
• Openscad Manual
• Openscad Libraries

Mac

System requirements: Mac OS X 10.9 or newer

OpenSCAD is also available on MacPorts:

Development Snapshots

OpenSCAD is great at making parametric designs — models represented by numbers that can be easily adjusted to change the size, shape, or any other aspect of a design. OpenSCAD is a GPLv2-licensed 3D computer-aided design (CAD) program best described as a “programmer’s CAD”; it is available for Linux, Windows, BSD and macOS. Where the majority of 3D-modeling software is point-and-click, the OpenSCAD website describes the project as “something like a 3D compiler”, where models that are generated using a scripting language.

Development snapshots are built irregularly. If you want access to a more recent development snapshot, please contact the mailing list.

Windows

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

Development Snapshots

• Openscad computes it all over again and you can print it again, it is amazingly efficient. Yes, Openscad is a very powerful tool to design 3D shapes. It is not interactive, but it is nonetheless one of the very best, free and ubiquitous tools to design semi-industrial parts, like 3D printer links.
• OpenSCAD Tutorial Work-in-progress tutorial for OpenSCAD, being created with support of the Google Season of Docs 2019 program. Chapter 1 (PDF) Chapter 2 (PDF) Chapter 3 (PDF) Chapter 4 (PDF) Chapter 5 (PDF) Chapter 6 (PDF) Chapter 7 (PDF) Chapter 8 (PDF) Chapter 9 (PDF) The tutorial is CC-BY-SA-4.0 by Themistoklis Spanoudis.
• OpenSCAD is great at making parametric designs — models represented by numbers that can be easily adjusted to change the size, shape, or any other aspect of a design.

Development snapshots are built irregularly. If you want access to a more recent development snapshot, please contact the mailing list.

Linux

Debian / Ubuntu / Kubuntu

OpenSCAD is available in the repositories of recent distributions.

For Ubuntu users:

To update to the latest release add the following PPA before installing OpenSCAD:

Install with Reset rt n12.

Fedora

OpenSCAD is available in Fedora official repositories. To install, run the following command:

If you want the MCAD library:

Please note that you'll find OpenSCAD 2014.03 in Fedora 21 and lower. In case you'd like to use 2015.03 in Fedora 21, you can use a Copr repo with it.

openSUSE

OpenSCAD is available from software.opensuse.org

Other Linux

The following generic binary Linux packages are available:

Development Snapshots

Linux - AppImage

Please try the automatically built snapshots first if you are running a supported distribution (see below), the following AppImage builds are still experimental.

Linux - Snap

Snap packages are available, as those are built against an older Ubuntu (16.04) those are using some older components which can cause known display issues, so if possible use one of the specific distribution packages below.

Linux - Distribution Packages

The packages are automatically built based on the master branch on github.

Note: The packages are called 'openscad-nightly' so it's possible to install the development snapshot packages in parallel to the release version from the official repositories.

Debian / Ubuntu packages built on OpenSUSE build service

To install the packages, the release key must be added with apt-key to the key-ring to allow apt-get / aptitude to validate the packages.

Key ID: 75F3214F30EB8E08 (valid till 2021-04-18)
Key UID: home:t-paul OBS Project

Openscad For Loop

NOTE: If you get errors about an expired key valid till 2019-02-07, please re-import via the following command.

After the key is added, the repository URL needs to be configured. This can be done by creating a new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openscad.list with the URL specific to the distribution.

The repository links below are shown as https, please check for your installation if https is supported. In Debian/Ubuntu this is usually handled by the apt-transport-https package. OBS also supports HTTP links, but it's recommended to use https whenever possible.

Debian 9 (Stretch)

Debian 10 (Buster)

Debian Testing

Debian Unstable

Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.10

Ubuntu 19.04

Ubuntu 19.10

Ubuntu 20.04

Arch Linux

To install OpenSCAD from git on Arch Linux the openscad-git pkgbuild is available on AUR.

BSD

OpenBSD

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

Openscad Cheat Sheet

Other Systems

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

Openscad Manual

Source Code

Openscad Libraries