System requirements: OS X 10.9 or newer

OpenSCAD is also available on MacPorts (check version):

					$ sudo port install openscad
				

OpenSCAD is also available on Homebrew (check version):

					$ brew install openscad
				

Debian / Ubuntu / Kubuntu

OpenSCAD is available in the repositories of most recent distributions.

					$ sudo apt-get install openscad
				

Fedora

OpenSCAD is available in Fedora official repositories. To install, run the following command:

					# yum install openscad
				

If you want the MCAD library:

					# yum install openscad-MCAD
				

openSUSE

OpenSCAD is available from software.opensuse.org

Arch Linux

					# pacman -S openscad
				

Other Linux

App Stores

NetBSD (>=6.1)

Set up pkgin and run this command:

					# pkgin install openscad
				

FreeBSD (>=10)

					# pkg install openscad
				

OpenBSD

OpenSCAD is available for amd64, i386 and macppc in OpenBSD packages:

					# pkg_add openscad
				

macOS

System requirements: macOS 11 "Big Sur" or newer, universal build supporting Intel and Apple Silicon systems.

Windows

System requirements: Windows 10 (64-bit), or newer, Intel system.

Linux - AppImage

Please try the automatically built snapshots first if you are running a supported distribution (see below), the following AppImage builds are still experimental.

The ARM 64-bit (aarch64) AppImage is built and tested only for Raspberry PI OS 64-bit (which may still be in beta test).

Linux - Snap

Or install with

					# snap install openscad-nightly
				

To use Gamepads or supported 3D Mouse devices (like the SpaceMouse series from 3D Connexion) the following command is needed to allow the snap package access to the joystick interface.

					# snap connect openscad:joystick snapd:joystick
				

Linux - Flatpak

Note that this is not automatically updated as with most other nightly builds, but instead is manually selected builds.

Setup beta repository

					# flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub-beta \
					  https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
				

Install OpenSCAD beta version

					# flatpak install --user flathub-beta org.openscad.OpenSCAD
				

WebAssembly

Many thanks to Dominick (DSchroer) for making this possible. Build instructions and examples can be found in the openscad-wasm repository on github

The ZIP package contains an experimental build based on this work for WebAssembly allowing OpenSCAD to run inside a web browser. Right now it's a bit slow and there's no support for preview, fonts or a built-in GUI. Some of those things will hopefully be supported or improved soon, however GUI support is unlikely to be added.

Try it out at https://ochafik.com/openscad or start with a slightly bigger example.

Linux - Distribution Packages

The packages are automatically built based on the master branch on github.

Note: The packages are called "openscad-nightly" so it's possible to install the development snapshot packages in parallel to the release version from the official repositories.

Debian / Ubuntu packages built on OpenSUSE build service

The release key must be added to the apt key-ring so apt-get, apt and other tools can validate the packages.
Key ID: 75F3214F30EB8E08 (valid till 2025-07-09)
Key UID: home:t-paul OBS Project <home:t-paul@build.opensuse.org> Fingerprint: 5F4A 8A2C 8BB1 1716 F294 82BB 75F3 214F 30EB 8E08

NOTE: If you get errors about an expired key valid till 2023-06-14, please re-import the key.

					# wget -qO- https://files.openscad.org/OBS-Repository-Key.pub | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/obs-openscad-nightly.asc
				

After the key is added, the repository URL needs to be configured. This can be done by creating a new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openscad.list with the URL specific to the distribution.

The repository links below are shown as https, please check for your installation if https is supported. In Debian/Ubuntu this is usually handled by the apt-transport-https package. OBS also supports HTTP links, but it's recommended to use https whenever possible.

Debian 11 (Bullseye)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_11/ ./
				

Debian 12 (Bookworm)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_12/ ./
				

Debian Testing

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_Testing/ ./
				

Debian Unstable

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_Unstable/ ./
				

Raspbian 11 (64-bit only)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Raspbian_11/ ./
				

Raspbian 12 (64-bit only)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Raspbian_12/ ./
				

Ubuntu 22.04 (x86_64, aarch64)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/xUbuntu_22.04/ ./
				

Ubuntu 23.04 (x86_64, aarch64)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/xUbuntu_23.04/ ./
				

Ubuntu 23.10 (x86_64, aarch64)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/xUbuntu_23.10/ ./
				

Ubuntu 24.04 (x86_64, aarch64)

					deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/xUbuntu_24.04/ ./
				

openSUSE packages built on OpenSUSE build service

openSUSE Leap 15.3 (64-bit only)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/
				

openSUSE Leap 15.4 (64-bit only)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/
				

openSUSE Tumbleweed

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
				

Fedora packages built on OpenSUSE build service

Fedora 34 (x86_64, armv7l, aarch64, ppc64le)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Fedora_34/
				

Fedora 35 (x86_64, armv7l, aarch64, ppc64le)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Fedora_35/
				

Fedora 36 (x86_64, armv7l, aarch64, ppc64le)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Fedora_36/
				

Fedora 37 (x86_64, armv7l, aarch64, ppc64le)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Fedora_37/
				

Fedora Rawhide (x86_64, i586)

					https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Fedora_Rawhide/
				

Arch Linux

To install OpenSCAD from git on Arch Linux the openscad-git pkgbuild is available on AUR.