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Openscad? Or that doesn’t do everything?

• gitgud 7y ago
  Openscad is a great project and I'm impressed at it's performance and small size, but it's completely unusable for non-programmers (99% of consumers of CAD products). Almost all drafters and fabricators just want to interact with the 3D model with the mouse. Dragging and adding features. Also 2D drawings are the main output of a CAD program, to build the designs from. Which Openscad doesn't provide.
• dbcurtis 7y ago
  Openscad is a completely different paradigm. It is a graphics scripting engine, not a parametric modeler. Openscad is good for what it does, but is a hugely different beast from a parametric modeling system. In solidworks (to pick on the one I am most familiar with, NOT expert with) you can click on an edge and say "radius this". In Solidworks, you can have a master model drive dimensions down to other drawings, so that multiple people can work on different parts of the same system and get the bolt holes to line up. In Solidworks, you can say "give me 2% draft angles on these faces, and run an injection mold flow analysis." Openscan is cool and I use it, but nobody would confuse it with Solidworks or similar.