OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Sorry, no. The "not supporting" really means stop interacting with the platform in it's current state. It's not about the technical way to post. 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026For OpenSCAD updates, please follow us on Mastodon (floss.social/@openscad). For the time being, we will not support this platform. 131
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Day 24 of #scadvent opens the last door which has a cozy little cottage designed to 3d print quickly with fixed wall thickness. Size and decorations can be easily customized in the script. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 000
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Day 23 of #scadvent concludes the 3 part series of LED figurines with an angel. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Day 22 of #scadvent welcomes a penguin. While not bothered by the cold, the Christmas hat is still needed. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Day 21 of #scadvent is just cubes, lots of dancing colorful cubes. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Day 20 of #scadvent shows how math in hiding in nature. Sunflower seeds often grow in spirals following Fibonacci numbers, oggardenonline.com/why-do-sunfl... has more info the topic. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #Fibonacci 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Day 19 of #scadvent is a customizable gift box which can be printed quickly in vase mode. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Day 18 of #scadvent is part 2 of a series of 3 LED enclosures for the small and cheap battery powered LED strings. This time it is a Christmas tree featuring the multi-color version of the LED string. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Day 17 of #scadvent brings back the Gingerbread man, this time as bookmark for those who love reading books. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Day 16 of #scadvent shows how to create a nice parametric name tag. Use the Customizer to see what parameters are available. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Day 15 of #scadvent brings a fractal again, this time it's a simple L-System generator. The fractal shown uses axiom "F+F+F+F" and rules {"F":"FF+F+F+F+F+F-F"}. More details can be found in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #Fractal 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Day 14 of #scadvent has a geometric Christmas tree with space for a little LED tea light. It's parametric so it can be changed to fit different candles. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #3Dprinting 140
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Day 13 of #scadvent is a star. It also is meant to hold a small LED string so it can light up the evenings. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Day 12 of #scadvent brings... well 12, the number, and only this number. How? Only the source code can explain. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Day 11 of #scadvent is a little Christmas pyramid slowly spinning round and round. The candles are not lit due to safety reasons. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Day 10 of #scadvent has some important tool for the Christmas season. A cookie cutter. This one in the shape of a gingerbread man. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Day 9 of #scadvent goes fractal. This time it's the Tricorn, defined very similar to the Mandelbrot set but using a different mapping. All the math details can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn... openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar #Fractal 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Day 8 of #scadvent has a Christmas bauble based on the teardrop formula. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Technical note on door 7... due to the very long file name, the layout is a bit confused at normal screen resolutions. If it looks like there's no link, it may have wrapped around ending up under the image. 000
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Day 7 of #scadvent might bring back some memory or provide a view into history at a time when computer memory still was often based on magnets... Meet Gahan Wilson's SCIENCE FICTION HORROR MOVIE POCKET COMPUTER. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 220
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Day 6 of #scadvent has lots of tiles, Truchet Tiles to be exact. Each tile has the same simple structure but combined and randomly rotated they can produce interesting patterns. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 130
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 06/12/2025And we continue directly with day 5 of #scadvent which brings a toboggan. You have to bring the snow though. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Catching up a bit, we had day 4 of #scadvent with a nice design that might look good on a Christmas tree. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #AdventCalendar 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Day 3 of #scadvent is a bit different. Do you think #OpenSCAD can play TicTacToe? Give it a try? openscad.org/advent-calen... #AdventCalendar 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Day 2 of #scadvent plays a little bit with math... openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #Advent #AdventCalendar 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Following the yearly tradition of starting late with our advent calendar, the first day of #scadvent brings a little candle holder. openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD #Advent #AdventCalendar 1110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The docker tags 'dev' and 'trixie' of the openscad/openscad image are now also available for riscv64 in addition to amd64 and arm64. The images continue to be updated weekly. hub.docker.com/r/openscad/o... #docker #openscad #riscvhub.docker.com 010
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The dev-snapshot #docker images of #OpenSCAD are now based on Debian 13 (Trixie) when using the "dev" tag. The bookworm based images are still around with tag "bookworm", but currently amd64 only. The arm64 images will be back soon, once a build issue is resolved. hub.docker.com/r/openscad/o...hub.docker.com 020
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 07/09/2025New book by Roberto Hamm published (in French): Ça, c’est #OpenSCAD openscad.org/documentatio... #3dprinting #books 020
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 17/08/2025If you already have OpenSCAD installed, make sure Manifold is selected. If you rely on, or want to still use, the CGAL backend, you can enable this in preferences (see screenshot) or on the cmd-line using `openscad --backend=cgal`. 050
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 17/08/2025After a long time of battle testing, we’ve now made the Manifold backend in #OpenSCAD the default. This means that all new users of the development snapshot will, starting with the next nightly build, experience significantly faster rendering. #3dprinting #floss 1121
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 09/08/2025OpenSCAD supports enabling those features when specifying the font to use in the text() module. The screenshot shows the different display of the "Linux Libertine G" font (www.numbertext.org/linux/) with "Small Caps" and "Oldstyle Figures" features enabled. 020
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Due to this topic coming up recently, we'll have a look at how #OpenSCAD supports typographic features some modern fonts have. A list of features can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... along with a short description of what they do. 120
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 16/02/20253D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generator - calbryant.uk/blog/3d-prin... #OpenSCAD #3dprintingcalbryant.uk3D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generatorAutomating the processes of splitting up large 3D prints into smaller parts with dovetail joins 041
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 03/02/2025New #OpenSCAD library added to the list at openscad.org/libraries.ht... (License: CC0). #foss #floss #3dprinting 050
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 01/01/20253MF NOTE: The export uses spec conform material definitions, unfortunately some (all?) slicers use custom extensions for colors that OpenSCAD is not able to use. More on that topic soon... 000
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 01/01/2025There is still a lot of work to do, but now it's possible to export/import colored model via 3MF. OFF can handle colors a bit longer already. 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Over the last couple of month, people have been working on extending #OpenSCAD to finally support color for the rendered 3D meshes. not just in preview. The base of all this is the new geometry engine Manifold, so this needs to be selected in Preferences. 181
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Day 24 of #SCADvent opens the last door of our advent calendar and this has a Christmas tree again. We started this years series with a simple printable tree. Today we bring you a procedurally generated Christmas Tree gently swaying in the breeze. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 010
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Day 23 of #SCADvent brings some Christmas greetings and wishes a happy new year will wait for us soon. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 110
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Day 22 of #SCADvent proves one thing: Nessie lives and seems to be in a Christmas mood. We just don't know where. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Day 21 of #SCADvent celebrates winter solstice with a recursive fractal star. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 100
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Day 20 of #SCADvent concludes the tutorial series with part 15. This shows one way of handling multiple parts in #OpenSCAD. Using the customizer single parts can be selected in 3d-printing orientation. Additionally there is the option to show an assembly view. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... 111
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Day 19 of #SCADvent does a deep dive into creating polygons and polyhedrons in part 14 of the tutorial. It's the most complex way of producing geometry, but gives almost unlimited power over #OpenSCAD to the user wielding math. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... 111
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Day 18 of #SCADvent lets it snow. Part 13 of the tutorial shows how to use recursive modules for creating random fractal snowflakes. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 111
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Day 17 of #SCADvent looks in part 12 of the tutorial at for() loops in more detail and explains a technique for piecewise generation of objects called chain hull. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... #OpenSCAD 111
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Day 16 of #SCADvent start the last week of the tutorials. We covered the basics of #OpenSCAD in the previous two weeks so the upcoming 5 parts will focus on a couple of specific topics. Part 11 presents many different ways for generating rounded rectangles. files.openscad.org/advent-calen... 111
OpenSCAD @openscad.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Day 15 of #SCADvent has something very different to offer - an #OpenSCAD interpretation of "Nighthawks", an 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightha... files.openscad.org/advent-calen... 131
![Screenshot of OpenSCAD showing the editor at the top with a short script creating the same text twice using the same font but the first one in the script, shown on top in the view port has the font features "Small Caps" (smcp) and "Oldstyle Figures" (onum) enabled.
s = 20; t = "Hello World! - 01234567890";
text(t, s, font = "Linux Libertine G:style=Regular:fontfeatures=+smcp;+onum");
translate([0, -2 * s]) text(t, s, font = "Linux Libertine G:style=Regular");
The smcp feature causes the lower case letters to look like scaled down upper case letters and the onum feature changes the numbers to have different height. 0, 1, 2 are small as lower case letters, the other digits have the height of upper case letters with 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 sitting below the base line having the top aligned with the small numbers, 6 and 8 sitting on the base line.
The bottom of the screenshot shows the font selection window with the Linux Libertine G font selected, showing some more details about the font.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4zhash6sou74lxhugw25yhdp/bafkreifxo73c5ikvlhkhk2ranusl5ginexkfavxsrisw6wwo3ziz56i72i)
![A screenshot of the OpenSCAD GUI, the 3D view showing a simple rectangular open box. The more interesting part is the code editor though. It shows a couple of lines of python code, implying the box was not produced from a normal scad script but from this python code.
The actual code shown is:
from openscad import *
c1 = cube([10, 20, 11], center = True)
c2 = cube([8, 18, 12], center = True)
box = c1 - (c2 + [0, 0, 2])
box.rotate([0, 0, 40]).show()](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4zhash6sou74lxhugw25yhdp/bafkreiaj3zfaw4cmeogq6elzbfnzddfjcwwblvmlp7bsobvixgx4bvmbqu)
