[Feature request] Keybinding for Rendering

[roaldarbol]

First of all thanks for this extension, it's absolutely amazing!

One thing that I love about using VS and this extension is that is enables a keyboard only workflow. The only thing I miss for that to be fully implemented is a few keybindings - in particular Render (normally F6) (STL export would be great too and is covered in #11). Hope it could be possible in the future. :-)

[Leathong]

You can customize the keyboard shortcut. open "preferences: open keyboard shortcuts" from the command palette, and filter "@command:scad-lsp.preview".

[roaldarbol]

Tnanks for the tip. This is however just for the preview. Is there a way to set a keybinding for Render as well?

[Leathong]

Just save the file，openSCAD will re-render the file automatically. Or you means export? The plugin cannot export for now, you can export from openSCAD.

[roaldarbol]

On saving, it does Reload and Preview, not Render. If you look in the Design pane of OpenSCAD, you'll see keybindings for Reload and Preview (F4), Preview (F5), Render (F6) and 3D Print (F8) - here I'm talking about the Render (F6) action. I often use different resolutions for preview and render ($fn= $preview ? 60 : 200;), thus it would be useful to Render from VSCode.

[Leathong]

I got it, I will check if there is a command line argument for that feature.

[roaldarbol]

I found an overview of all the command line features here, and it does have a --render argument - hope that helps. :-)