Nautilus STL Thumbnailer

This thumbnailer requires OpenSCAD as backend, once you installed it then With newer GNOME Nautilus the thumbnail processes are "bwrap" (bubblewrap) and so the approach using OpenSCAD to render STL files no longer works. As a remedy stl2pov, stl2png.pl and povray are required to do the same.

Requirements

• install stl2pov
• install PovRay sudo apt install povray and (cd ~; ln -s /etc/povray/ .povray)

Download

% git clone https://github.com/Spiritdude/Nautilus_Thumbnailer_STL
% cd Nautilus_Thumbnailer_STL

Install

% sudo make install

and restart Nautilus and then your .stl will show up rendered in the preview.

Acknowledgement

This repo is based on STL Thumbnailer with a few changes to make it easier to use.

See Also

• GCode Thumbnailer