replicad CLI/desktop app

[dcorbin]

I have tool that generates openscad, and then uses openscad for previewing the shape, and to generate STL. I'm contemplating switching to use replicad instead of openscad.

To do that, I basically need two things:

1. a command-line tool that can take a replicad model and generate the .STL for it and
2. a "viewer" that presents view similar to the workbench

I think #1 is doable using node. Does something like this exist already? How hard would it be on a scale of 1-10 to create?

As for #2, I could I think finagle something with the browser, though that seems less ideal to me. More appealing to me (conceptually) is to have some gui-based desktop app that takes a file on the command line, and renders it it's own GUI window. The same two questions apply: Does something like this exist already? How hard would it be on a scale of 1-10 to create?

Thanks

[sgenoud]

For #1 I have create a CLI to generate STL (using Deno and not node): https://github.com/sgenoud/replicad-cli

This is a small project that I mostly built for my purpose (generating project images for my models log), but it should work for STL as well.

[sgenoud]

For #2 I have something similar (and actually part of the workbench). If you are using a Chromium based browser (sorry, but the others do not want to support the APIs needed for this), you can click the arrow on the left (toggle auto-reload) or just go here.

I am trying to make the whole thing work offline as well (there are some bugs I need to fix though). You could try to wrap the whole thing in an electron shell to make it callable from the command line.