I am trying to create a series of STL files from one SCAD file under Windows. When I open the SCAD files and press F5, all is well. If I try the same thing using a batch file, I get "Parser error in line 197: syntax error" (the last line in the file), which is not helpful. Any thoughts about how to approach this? Thanks! Jon

Are you passing any -D parameters? They get added to the end of the main file and parsed, so if they are not in the right format you get a syntax error IIRC one line after the last line. On 17 May 2017 at 15:56, jon <jon@jonbondy.com> wrote: > I am trying to create a series of STL files from one SCAD file under > Windows. When I open the SCAD files and press F5, all is well. If I try > the same thing using a batch file, I get "Parser error in line 197: syntax > error" (the last line in the file), which is not helpful. > > Any thoughts about how to approach this? > > Thanks! > > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

On 2017-05-17 15:56, jon wrote: > I am trying to create a series of STL files from one SCAD file under > Windows. As nop says, probably your -D syntax and most likely escaping of quotes. BTW, I've installed gnu make for Windows and am using a makefile to create about 20 stls from around 10 scad files and it works well. I'm happy to share my makefile syntax but it's nothing complex. BTW, I find builds are faster on Linux and don't bring the machine to its knees in the same way. I have no idea why.