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Very nice write up, and it seems like you had a lot of fun. I play with OpenSCAD for fun, but because I use Inventor and Rhino at work, and FreeCAD at home, I

by eggy 8y ago

Very nice write up, and it seems like you had a lot of fun. I play with OpenSCAD for fun, but because I use Inventor and Rhino at work, and FreeCAD at home, I don't use OpenSCAD to actually design stuff. If I want to do generative, creative and coded design I use Racket with the Rosetta package [1] with Rhino or AutoCAD as my backend. I am trying to port Rosetta to FreeCAD [2], so it is all free. Racket with Rosetta is a lot more free or open to creating generative designs than OpenSCAD. I really get a kick out of Grasshopper [3] with Rhino 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] https://www.freecadweb.org https://www.freecadweb.org [3] https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper

incanus77 8y ago
Cool, I’ll check these out. I’ve been conceptually into generative design, but haven’t played around yet. Clearly OpenSCAD will be a huge uphill battle there, if useful at all.
linguaz 8y ago
> I am trying to port Rosetta to FreeCAD ... so it is all free. This sounds really interesting. I've been wanting to work with Rosetta but with a backend other than AutoCAD, hopefully something that could run in Debian. I'd be interested to follow any progress you make on this front if there's a code repo / link you could point to, or maybe message me (contact info is in my profile).
- eggy 8y ago
  Rosetta already has an OpenGL backend. My job is not coding, so getting Rosetta to work with FreeCAD is a personal project that I have not gone too far with. If I do, I will create a code repo. I sometimes code in Python for FreeCAD and Blender3D in the meantime. I like Rosetta, since it is striving to be a general purpose geometry-scripting language like Processing did for multimedia arts. Processing has been ported to, and is key to Rosetta.

by eggy 8y ago

incanus77 8y ago

Cool, I’ll check these out. I’ve been conceptually into generative design, but haven’t played around yet. Clearly OpenSCAD will be a huge uphill battle there, if useful at all.

linguaz 8y ago

> I am trying to port Rosetta to FreeCAD ... so it is all free. This sounds really interesting. I've been wanting to work with Rosetta but with a backend other than AutoCAD, hopefully something that could run in Debian. I'd be interested to follow any progress you make on this front if there's a code repo / link you could point to, or maybe message me (contact info is in my profile).

eggy 8y ago
Rosetta already has an OpenGL backend. My job is not coding, so getting Rosetta to work with FreeCAD is a personal project that I have not gone too far with. If I do, I will create a code repo. I sometimes code in Python for FreeCAD and Blender3D in the meantime. I like Rosetta, since it is striving to be a general purpose geometry-scripting language like Processing did for multimedia arts. Processing has been ported to, and is key to Rosetta.