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The visualiser

For now we will use the visualiser. The aim of this page is to give a fast view of what the code you are writing locally (on your machine) will render to.

Unfortunately, in order to have all the file reloading abilities you will need to use Chrome (or Edge). Firefox and Safari will still render your models, but will not be able to listen to changes on your local file.

Creating a local file​

Using your editor of choice, create a file (model1.js for instance) somewhere on your disk and write in it:

const main = ({ sketchEllipse }) => {
  return sketchEllipse(20, 30).extrude(50).fillet(2);
};

You will need to define a main function in your file. This function will receive the library as a first parameter, and should return a shape.

Visualise!​

Select this file in the visualiser and you should see something like this:

Your first 3D model

Congratulation you have built your first model with replicad!