Sorry for asking this simple question, but whenever I used something from the Library folder it never worked and I ended up by copying all I needed into the same folder or into my scad file directly to get it to work. Now, in order to get the threadlib to work I checked once again. I tried to show something from "list-comprehension-demos" what uses scad-utils. I have 'scad-utils' installed (to confirm, I opened this folder safely through OpenSCAD's menu 'File/Show Library Folder...') and it's all there. But the opened scad doesn't find it. I made this little movie <https://photos.app.goo.gl/cDG1JFZ2RpgnwKUU8> to show the problem. Can someone tell me what is the problem here?

dpa wrote > Sorry for asking this simple question, but whenever I used something from > the Library folder it never worked and I ended up by copying all I needed > into the same folder or into my scad file directly to get it to work. > > Now, in order to get the threadlib to work I checked once again. I tried > to > show something from "list-comprehension-demos" what uses scad-utils. I > have > 'scad-utils' installed (to confirm, I opened this folder safely through > OpenSCAD's menu 'File/Show Library Folder...') and it's all there. But the > opened scad doesn't find it. > > I made this little movie > &lt;https://photos.app.goo.gl/cDG1JFZ2RpgnwKUU8&gt; to > show the problem. > Can someone tell me what is the problem here? > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@.openscad > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org Sorry, nothing comes to mind. You could check the paths in Help/show-library-info, but as it is opening that path it must be there.Maybe some clue here https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries ----- Admin - email* me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... * click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me. Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/

Why is there a cloud icon behind the file? Is that some kind of remote folder and the file is not actually there? ciao, Torsten.

Am Fr., 12. Juni 2020 um 01:28 Uhr schrieb Torsten Paul <Torsten.Paul@gmx.de >: > Why is there a cloud icon behind the file? Is that some > kind of remote folder and the file is not actually there? > Yes! In fact this was the reason! I use iCloud for Documents (I think this is standard) where OpenScad/libraries is part of. Everything 'is there' but (showing the cloud-) only on demand. When OpenSCAD asks for anything it doesn't download it (what I would expect from a smart iCloud/finder) so it keeps unknown. Now I downloaded everything and it works! > ciao, > Torsten. > Thank you for your open eyes, Torsten!