I see that the list of 3D design software said to be compatible with Z-Suite does not include OpenSCAD, which is the program I tentatively intend to use for my small mechanical gadgets. What are the practical implications of this apparent lack of compatibility? Thanks for any info!
Z-Suite just imports an STL file, it doesn't care who generated it. If OpenSCAD can export an STL file then it should work. (If it can't then it isn't a real 3D program :D ). Now for sure some 3D CAd programs export crappy STL files, full of holes and overlaps and such. Those can cause problems in Z-Suite no matter what the source.
Hi
All the stl files I exported from openscad and printed on my Zortrax worked very well, so I think you should not worry about that.
Maybe it is not in the list because of the way it works, I mean it looks more like a source code compiler than a modern cad software (a bit like comparing TeX and Microsoft Word)
Laurent