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OpenSCAD 
Developer(s) Marius Kintel, Clifford Wolf Stable release 2011.06 Operating system Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Type CAD License GNU General Public License Website openscad.org 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 CGAL as the basic Computational Solid Geometry engine, taking care of details such as intersection, difference and minkowski sums. The results are 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.
See also
- List of computer-aided design editors for architecture, engineering and construction
External links
- Official website
User manual at Wikibooks
Media related to OpenSCAD at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:- Computer-aided design stubs
- Free software stubs
- Free computer-aided design software
- Software that uses Qt
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