Install and Configure OpenSCAD on Ubuntu Linux

If you are interested in 3D print technologies and have such machine at home, u probably know how difficult to get a certain model. Somthing is missing or misplaced and so on… And finally you decide to make the model by yourself.

There are no problems with install on Win systems, but for linux newbie users it could become really hard.

Let’s add off. repository with fresh version of openscad and install it from terminal:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openscad/releases

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install openscad

Also you can just download archive from openscad.org and extract it in the desired place. Start the program, type cube([2,2,2]); and click F6. Congrats, everithing should work at this moment.

As you can see, the code editor in OpenSCAD is awful. So just go www.sublimetext.com and download that nice program. In order to get openscad code highlighting you should download plugin from https://github.com/tbuser/openscad.tmbundle and put it in the folder which you can find from program menu: Preferences-Browse Packages

To manage plugins easily - try this thing: https://packagecontrol.io/installation, when installed: click Preferences-Package Control and type Openscad..

Now you have nicely highlighted code but no synchronization between those two programms. To achieve that - check Design — Automatic Reload and Compile in OpenSCAD.

Finally, open the same file in OpenSCAD and Sublime Text, close standard code editor window from scad. On every code save, you should see changes in openscad render.