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| id | nicescad |
| state | active |
| owner | WolfgangFahl |
| title | nicescad |
| url | https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/nicescad |
| version | 0.3.0 |
| description | |
| date | 2025-06-16 |
| since | 2023-07-19 |
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pip install nicescad
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install nicescad
# local install from source directory of nicescad
pip install .
pip install nicescad -U
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install nicescad -U
✍️🤖 Agent/Guido:
✍️🤖 Agent/Guido:
✍️🤖 Agent/Guido: On nicescad.bitplan.com a design is only saved as share link if the code contains both
Code missing one of them is silently not saved. Example:
// Copyright Wolfgang Fahl 2026
module example() {
cube(30, center=true);
}
example();
nicescad -h
usage: nicescad [-h] [-a] [-d] [--debugLocalPath DEBUGLOCALPATH]
[--debugPort DEBUGPORT] [--debugRemotePath DEBUGREMOTEPATH]
[--debugServer DEBUGSERVER] [-f] [-q] [-v] [-V]
[--apache APACHE] [-c] [-l] [-i INPUT] [-rol] [--host HOST]
[--port PORT] [-s] [-rp ROOT_PATH]
nicescad brings OpenScad to the browser (again)
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --about show version info and open documentation
-d, --debug enable debug output
--debugLocalPath DEBUGLOCALPATH
remote debug Server path mapping - localPath - path on
machine where python runs
--debugPort DEBUGPORT
remote debug Port [default: 5678]
--debugRemotePath DEBUGREMOTEPATH
remote debug Server path mapping - remotePath - path
on debug server
--debugServer DEBUGSERVER
remote debug Server
-f, --force force overwrite or unsafe actions
-q, --quiet suppress all output
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
--apache APACHE create an apache configuration file for the given
domain
-c, --client start client
-l, --local run with local file system access
-i INPUT, --input INPUT
input file
-rol, --render_on_load
render on load
--host HOST the host to serve / listen from (default: localhost)
--port PORT the port to serve from (default: 9858)
-s, --serve start webserver
-rp ROOT_PATH, --root_path ROOT_PATH
path to scad files [default:
.../site-packages/nicescad_examples]