3 ms·
I guess for some or generative structures it makes sense, but programming a CAD object sounds like something from the 1970's. Being able to click on a corner an
by analognoise 8y ago
I guess for some or generative structures it makes sense, but programming a CAD object sounds like something from the 1970's. Being able to click on a corner and say, "fillet, radius whatever" makes way more sense to me. I must not be "getting it" - could you explain how it is better? I get that it's FOSS, so besides that?
- etskinner 8y agoHas an effort to add a full GUI to OpenSCAD ever been considered? Would be absolutely amazing to be able to design the way you're describing, and then throw it into a git repo.
- bsilvereagle 8y agoCadQuery allows scripting of FreeCAD, and comes close to "OpenSCAD with a GUI". https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
- imglorp 8y agoThe difference is programmatic cad can have composable, repeatable, and automatable operations. What if you have a thousand corners to fillet, in some kind of gradient, so each is a little different than the last? You won't be clicking and menu-ing your way out of that. What if you want to do transforms on models as part of a process, like read a pile of models and do something to each? Programmatic. And then you can pass that process to another transform doing something else. etc. In a programmatic cad system, it's just a few lines of code.