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Background

Exporting models in OpenSCAD is a manual process, which makes exporting a large number of models to separate files or folders tedious and slow. One workaround is to render multiple parts in the same view, and export them together as a single model. However, this requires logic to lay out the parts, complex projects may need multiple part collections, and it still requires manual steps to export.

SCAD Export massively speeds up exporting complex projects by allowing the model and folder paths to be defined programmatically, and using multithreading to render models in parallel. Once configured, an export script can be run to rapidly export all models for a project into separate files and folders.

The image below shows SCAD Export in action. The initial configurations only need to be selected once, and will be saved for future runs.

Documentation

• Usage
  • Provides setup and usage instructions.
• Examples
  • Provides examples for how to use SCAD Export in new projects.
• API Documentation
  • Provides detailed API documentation for the SCAD Export library.