import_scad() does not look in 'Installation library' location

[occivink]

Hi,

'Installation library' is the terminology used on the OpenScad wiki and described as:
"The Installation library location is the libraries directory under the directory where OpenSCAD is installed."
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries

So this use <MCAD/2Dshapes.scad> is valid in openscad,
in SolidPython import_scad("MCAD/2Dshapes.scad") is not valid, it fails with the error

Locations searched were: [PosixPath('MCAD/2Dshapes.scad'), PosixPath('/home/user/.local/share/OpenSCAD/libraries/MCAD/2Dshapes.scad')]

indicating that the installation library path is not search at all.

This is occuring with solidpython 1.1.1 on arch linux

[jeff-dh]

already mentioned in #176

(more or less a duplicate, even though the main issue in #176 is a different)

[jeff-dh]

Btw: If you plan to use sophisticated OpenSCAD libraries, it might be worth to have a look at expSolid, because there are several issues with OpenSCAD libraries in the master branch (i.e. #173, #176).

[occivink]

Thanks for the hint. I was experimenting with dotScad but so far it seems to work as expected. I'll keep your warning in mind though

[etjones]

Hi @occivink. Thanks for noting this. I wasn't aware of this extra library location. Is there a standard installation spot on Linux systems? On MacOS or Windows, that's pretty well defined, but it seems like different Linux distributions have different app layouts. If we have some solid guesses about where to try, I can make sure those paths are searched.

[occivink]

On Arch linux, Ubuntu and Fedora this path is /usr/share/openscad/libraries, so maybe this a rare case where distributions can actually agree on something

[etjones]

That's great. I'll add that to the search paths. Was just looking at the linux install page and I counted 9 different install methods so I don't know if this covers all the bases, but I guess that's why there's a designated libraries directory separate from the app install.

[etjones]

Should be fixed in v1.1.3, on PyPI