I'm a few releases back from the latest build on my main Debian bookworm laptop, I had multiple versions happily coexisting on Ubuntu as they were AppImages, but that's a different story, so I'm missing the 3MF export on F7. I use 3MF files, generated by Cura, each containing heavily customised print settings for specific parts of my machines.  When I switch printer types Cura often trashes the critical settings. So can I please upvote the request for being able to choose settings from OpenSCAD, it would make a huge difference to my workflows. I know there are hundreds of potential parameters which would be a good case for putting them in a template, which brings me onto Templates: And, following the recent discussion on templates, I eventually found mine, in ~/.var/app/org.openscad.OpenSCAD/config/OpenSCAD/templates, this is the Flatpak version, 2024.12.30. My locally built instance, which trod all over the original Debian repo install uses /home/rogerw/.config/OpenSCAD/templates, whatever, knowing where to squirrel templates is going to be hugely useful. Thank you. FWIW If I can contribute to the print settings in any way, please drop me an email. and @Gene, I'm not thrilled with AppImages or Flatpak bloatware, but I've found a 500G SSD is, er, 'sufficient', but I do keep a lot of stuff on a QNAP NAS, with selected folders auto synch'd, I'm dreading upgrading to Trixie, but at least the timing is my choice, not dictated by Micro$o$t.

On 10/21/25 07:50, Roger Whiteley via Discuss wrote: > I'm a few releases back from the latest build on my main Debian > bookworm laptop, I had multiple versions happily coexisting on Ubuntu > as they were AppImages, but that's a different story, so I'm missing > the 3MF export on F7. > > I use 3MF files, generated by Cura, each containing heavily customised > print settings for specific parts of my machines.  When I switch > printer types Cura often trashes the critical settings. > > So can I please upvote the request for being able to choose settings > from OpenSCAD, it would make a huge difference to my workflows. I know > there are hundreds of potential parameters which would be a good case > for putting them in a template, which brings me onto Templates: > > And, following the recent discussion on templates, I eventually found > mine, in ~/.var/app/org.openscad.OpenSCAD/config/OpenSCAD/templates, > this is the Flatpak version, 2024.12.30. > > My locally built instance, which trod all over the original Debian > repo install uses /home/rogerw/.config/OpenSCAD/templates, whatever, > knowing where to squirrel templates is going to be hugely useful. > > Thank you. > > FWIW If I can contribute to the print settings in any way, please drop > me an email. > > and @Gene, I'm not thrilled with AppImages or Flatpak bloatware, but > I've found a 500G SSD is, er, 'sufficient', but I do keep a lot of > stuff on a QNAP NAS, with selected folders auto synch'd, I'm dreading > upgrading to Trixie, but at least the timing is my choice, not > dictated by Micro$o$t. > AppImages seem to be ok here. I am considerably newer than the 24 issue, I'm on 2510 something. And lack of support for the backup programs we do have is messing with my attempts to do some much needed updating of my linuxcnc driven machines. So I'm considering just ssh mounting the machines and using rsync to do the backups. Some of that may bleed over to here as I ask for howto advise. I have plenty of storage on this machine, and /home with all this stuff is on its own 4Tb SSD drive, about 30% used but the rsync storage I have in mind lives as an 11Tb raid6 on a pi clone.  That's all setup, what to do to make the rsync runs conditional is the question I'll likely need help with. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src.

Hi I have been updating the documentation about how OpenSCAD uses paths to find its resources and to save user files. I can do my own research on Mac OS and WIndows but i only have a WSL Version of Ubuntu and i have not been able to get OpenSCAD running on it so far But .. if anyone running it on a Posix / Linus machine could capture the output of the menu Help > Library Info page and send it to me i will be able to complete the project with a semblance of confidence that my new doc version is saying correct things thanks all -- jeff is vulcan_ in the cloud On Oct. 21, 2025, at 3:46 p.m., gene heskett via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: On 10/21/25 07:50, Roger Whiteley via Discuss wrote: I'm a few releases back from the latest build on my main Debian bookworm laptop, I had multiple versions happily coexisting on Ubuntu as they were AppImages, but that's a different story, so I'm missing the 3MF export on F7.

I also got openscad compiled in LinuxMint inside a VirtualBox. Does this create output which is useful for you ? On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM Jeffrey Hayes via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > Hi > I have been updating the documentation about how OpenSCAD uses paths to > find its resources and to save user files. I can do my own research on Mac > OS and WIndows but i only have a WSL Version of Ubuntu and i have not been > able to get OpenSCAD running on it so far > > But .. if anyone running it on a Posix / Linus machine could capture the > output of the > menu Help > Library Info page and send it to me i will be able to complete > the project with a semblance of confidence that my new doc version is > saying correct things > > thanks all > > -- jeff is vulcan_ in the cloud > > On Oct. 21, 2025, at 3:46 p.m., gene heskett via Discuss < > discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > > > > > On 10/21/25 07:50, Roger Whiteley via Discuss wrote: > > I'm a few releases back from the latest build on my main Debian > bookworm laptop, I had multiple versions happily coexisting on Ubuntu > as they were AppImages, but that's a different story, so I'm missing > the 3MF export on F7. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM Jeffrey Hayes via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: But .. if anyone running it on a Posix / Linus machine could capture the > output of the > menu Help > Library Info page and send it to me i will be able to complete > the project with a semblance of confidence that my new doc version is > saying correct things > See the attached. (Username redacted.)