Open Scad - the program

Open Scad: brief description of features and limitations

Open Scad is an open source program for rendering 3d models. The input of the geometry data is not done interactively here, but by a textual programming language. So a generator for Oscad is simply a program text generator.

The 3d data is created from Primitives

There are also the normal Transformations and modifications:

Curved lines/surfaces (i.e. NURBS objects) must be composed of polygons. OSCAD cannot do that itself, it has to be programmed.

Colors are only supported in a roundabout way (only in preview mode).

The Performance is not particularly good. Unfortunately, it cannot be improved by parallelization or a modern graphics card either. A large part of the processing runs on only one processor. For slightly larger models, loading takes in the minute range (depending on the number of polygons).