NAME

       openscad - script file based graphical CAD environment

SYNOPSIS

       openscad [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the openscad command.

       openscad  is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It focuses on CAD aspects rather than artistic
       ones.

       OpenSCAD will start as a graphical program unless export options are given (see below). For the usage  of
       the   GUI   and   a   description   of   the   OpenSCAD   language   see  the  OpenSCAD  user  manual  at
       http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual.

OPTIONS

       -o outputfile
              Export the given file to outputfile in STL, OFF, DXF or CSG format, depending on file extension of
              outputfile (which has to be lower case).  If this option is given, the GUI will not be started.

       -d file.deps
              If the -d option is given, all files accessed while exporting are written to the given  deps  file
              in the syntax of a Makefile.

       -m make_command
              If  a nonexisting file is accessed during OpenSCAD's operation, it will try to invoke make_command
              missing_file to create the missing file, and then read it again.

       -D var=val
              This option can be used to assign constant values to OpenSCAD variables. The variable's  value  is
              an expression, so if this mechanism is used to assign strings, care has to be taken that the shell
              does not consume quotation marks.  More than one -D options can be given.

       -v, --version
              Show version of program.

AUTHOR

       OpenSCAD was written by Clifford Wolf, Marius Kintel, and others.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by
       others).

                                                   2011-11-03                                        OPENSCAD(1)