

I hit F10 and get a live preview that I can put alongside my Style so far, especially regarding one-op OpenSCAD modifiers that don’t requireĬurly braces).
#Openscad files code#
Additionally, the code is automatically reformatted to maintainĬonsistency (though I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of clang-format’s SCA2D, generally taking me to the line to (and in some cases the column) of I enable ALE, and with each write to disk I get lint suggestions from I open example.scad file in neovim, and theįiletype is properly detected, enabling my configuration preferences fromĪbove. With all of this out of the way, I’m pretty pleased with my upgraded situationįor coding with OpenSCAD.
#Openscad files update#
Once F10 opens OpenSCAD, you can place its window to the side of your editorĪnd watch the preview update with every write to disk.
#Openscad files how to#
Next, I wanted to figure out how to hook up ALE with SCA2d so that I could Update 20220808: The pull request has been merged! Request to get this into ALE hopefully it can be merged soon! 2 and 3: Lintingįuture readers: this part may soon be unnecessary, as I’ve made a pull Once this is figured, one should be able to nvim foo.scad and run :setįiletype? and see filetype=openscad at the bottom. cmd ( "au BufRead,BufNewFile *.scad set filetype=scad" ) With this setting enabled, one now needs to create a, in the sameĭirectory as their a, with contents similar to the following: The very top of my a, likely some conflict with a plugin that IĬouldn’t sort out. It didn’t work for me until I put this at Recent versions of neovim allow one to configure filetype settings in lua byĮnabling vim.g.do_filetype_lua = 1. (under Design in the menu bar), so with every write done by neovim theġ: Getting neovim to recognize OpenSCAD filesįuture readers: this part may soon be unnecessary, as it looks like there’s aĬommit that should accomplish the same thing in an upcoming release:

I recent made my first not-entirely-trivial OpenSCAD model: Bottom Line: Basic configuration to use Neovim for OpenSCAD development.
