Is OpenSCAD still being maintained?

floating-io a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. The "official release" is just so old as to be useless at this point. They should either update it or take it down and point people at github or something, IMO.

I use the latest version all the time. The newer renderer ("manifold", IIRC) is much faster, and there are newer facilities that make it possible to build 3MF files containing multiple objects for multi-color printing, though that takes a bit of thought to do correctly.

	▲	MattRix a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes everything this person said is correct. The Manifold backend is no joke, probably 100x faster. To do multi-color printing it’s pretty easy now, just turn on the poorly named feature in preferences called “lazy-unions”. This will make it so that each top level object in your file gets exported as a separate subobject in the 3mf file.

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crazysim a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apparently the nightlies are the one to use. At least, they build it for Apple Silicon in those.

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c0nsumer a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The last release was 2021.01 but the GitHub repo seems to be recently updated. So I'd say... Maybe?

That said, there are often times software gets so stable that not having a new release for years is fine. Maybe this is one of them?

(I'm very new to OpenSCAD so I haven't run into bugs yet... But maybe it's pretty solid?)

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MattRix a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, but the main downloads on the site are very old for some reason. Just get the nightly version instead, and then in Preferences -> Advanced -> Backend change it to “Manifold”. It will make your models “render” 10x faster (or more!).

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bdcravens a day ago | parent [-]

I believe that's the default now (at least in the latest MacOS nightly)

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coryrc a day ago | parent [-]

It is for all nightly builds, starting in the last few months.

	▲	MattRix 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Good to know!

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aeonik a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. https://github.com/openscad/openscad

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bdcravens a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's worth noting they haven't had a new "release" in 4 1/2 years, so you'll have to build it yourself or download a development snapshot

https://openscad.org/downloads.html#snapshots

	▲	aeonik 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I totally forgot about this. I build from git using the AUR.

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starkparker a day ago | parent | prev [-]

More usefully, https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3640