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Second on mind being blown. Great work you have done here! Long time 3D/CAD Schemer/Lisper here. I've tried OpenSCAD, programming FreeCAD in Python, Blender3D,
by eggy 10y ago
Second on mind being blown. Great work you have done here!
Long time 3D/CAD Schemer/Lisper here. I've tried OpenSCAD, programming FreeCAD in Python, Blender3D, and others. AutoLISP was OK as long as you had AutoCAD. Creating parametric shapes in Blender3D in the mid-2000s was cool.
I had used SDRC's IDEAS and AutoDesk Inventor for work, but I was always looking for a more programmatic way of doing things, since sometimes the concepts were more 'organic'. Tools like Rhino at the time were grabbing some of that market, and they had scripting. I dug into Open Cascade a bit, but I am not as skilled as you are, and I got lost in their link to analysis tooling too.
I think the term computational design is a good one. The same way I think computational intelligence is better than the artificial intelligence moniker.
This project, Rosetta, seemed interesting in using Racket to bring a general CAD programming language to work as a Front end for various CAD systems - Rhino, AutoCAD and future ones [1] [2 PDF].
I will be following you closely, since I think your other projects are cool too!
[1] http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/tutorials/introduction.html http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/tutoria...
[2 PDF] http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/acadia11_196.content.pdf http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/acadia11_196.conte...