Scadder CLI ⚡

A decentralized dependency manager for OpenSCAD.

Note: This package contains only the Scadder CLI utility. The serverless web customizer and viewer are hosted live at scadder.dev, and the full monorepo source is available on GitHub.

Sharing parametric models usually means fighting with broken customizers or passing around massive .zip files full of duplicated local libraries. Scadder brings npm-style dependency resolution to local OpenSCAD development, allowing you to pull cloud-hosted models and their nested dependencies directly into your local workflow.

Installation

Install the CLI globally to use it across all your projects:

npm install -g scadder

Usage

Navigate to any OpenSCAD project directory on your computer and run:

scadder install <model-id>

This will fetch the model and all of its nested include and use dependencies, dropping them into a .scadder_modules folder in your current directory so your local renders never break. (Available community model IDs are defined in the project's library.json , like parametric-sign).

Install via Direct URL

Scadder isn't restricted to a curated community library. You can pass a direct URL to any .scad file, and the crawler will recursively resolve and download all nested include and use dependencies.

(Note: The host must have a permissive CORS policy, such as raw.githubusercontent.com or a standard static file server).

scadder install https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/examples/Parametric/sign.scad

Licensing

Scadder is released under the GPLv3 License.

If you use or modify this code, your version must also remain open. If you use Scadder in your own projects, I kindly request that you attribute the original work by linking back to the GitHub repository and my portfolio: jscottk.net.