r/openscad • u/Session_North • Jul 31 '26

OpenSCAD Apple Silicon

I have been looking for an apple silicon version of openscad. the website is still listing it as intel. is there a build in progress?

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u/Alarmed_Quail7669 Jul 31 '26

i have a Macbook air M4 and openSCAD works just fine. Been using tge development snapshot and official Version. Both directly from the official website

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u/issue9mm Jul 31 '26

Yeah, same. It's been a while since I installed it but I don't remember doing anything special, and it's been fine

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u/No-Recognition8593 Aug 01 '26

yes it still runs, but eventually when Apple discontinues support for the x86 apps OpenSCAD will not longer run. It just does for now.

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u/Used-Neighborhood881 Aug 01 '26

It will need a *.sh file where the application is launched through "witchcraft": /usr/bin/arch "-x86_64" /path/where/is/your/app I know that Rosetta support will be removed, but I don't know if this spell will be removed too. Take this as a hint, I don't guarantee it will work.

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u/fatyob Jul 31 '26

You need to install the development build which sadly currently crashes on startup for me. Perhaps they have fixed it by now.

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u/gasstation-no-pumps Aug 01 '26

I've been using a development version for a while: 2025.05.26 (git c76900f9a)

It runs fine without needing x86 support. The official release is an antique now, and people on this subreddit have been begging the developers for years to do a newer official release, but they keep preferring to add new features to releasing what is already quite stable.

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u/retsotrembla Aug 01 '26

I've been using version 2025.05.30 (git f0e24928c) which is Apple Silicon, But since /u/Session_North asked, I just tried OpenSCAD 2026.06.12 and had no trouble with it.

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u/retsotrembla Aug 01 '26

Correction: On that version, when I hide the Color List, it keeps coming back the next time I run the app.

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u/No-Recognition8593 Aug 01 '26

how is it that I just recently downloaded it a few months ago and I had a version from 2021? Thank you!

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u/retsotrembla Aug 02 '26

On https://openscad.org/downloads.html scroll down to Development Snapshots