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OpenSCAD appealed to me as a programmer. I needed to prototype some parts and openscad was simpler than any of the GUI tools. Not sure how but I have talent mak
by elcritch 6y ago
OpenSCAD appealed to me as a programmer. I needed to prototype some parts and openscad was simpler than any of the GUI tools. Not sure how but I have talent making SolidWorks blow up with non-invertible matrices. :/
But OpenSCAD’s approach hit a wall quickly for me. Trying to figure out the distances for new objects was a PITA. It would be nice to have a simple GUI tool for placing an item by inserting the proper code. Ideally you’d be able to link changeable parameters in the GUI to code variables and be able to do things like show/hide in the GUI, or even a repl.
- tgflynn 6y agoI don't have much experience with it myself but based on what you said it sounds like there's a real need to have the geometry definition language embedded within a full programming language, like the parent comment said. In the meantime another possibility might be to write a code generator for the scad language.
- justinclift 6y agoLooking through some of the AngelScript samples, they look reasonable. eg: https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/rectangle_rounded.as https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/rect... https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/polyhedron_from_points.as https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/poly... That being said, those are clearly "toy" level of complexity and I haven't tried it out.