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I love OpenSCAD. I use it for all personal projects in 3D printing at home. I use SolidWorks for work. The contrast between these two is incredibly striking. O

I love OpenSCAD. I use it for all personal projects in 3D printing at home. I use SolidWorks for work. The contrast between these two is incredibly striking. OpenSCAD is like a bicycle in comparison to an automobile. It would provide literally billions (maybe tens or hundreds of billions) of dollars of value to the world if a few million dollars was spent developing an open source CAD/CAM package that was more than a mere bicycle and that wasn't terrible (sorry, FreeCAD, but we both know it's true). There needs to be an indiegogo campaign or something.

rspeele 6y ago
I would check out SolveSpace for some of your personal projects. It is no SolidWorks but it is a parametric CAD program that works well, within its limitations. Very lightweight and not as crashy as FreeCAD. If your part doesn't need lofts, NURBs, extrude-along-path, you can probably design it about as fast in SolveSpace as in SW, and with a similar mindset (vs. having to shift completely into programmer-mode for OpenSCAD). e.g. Hood of a car? No way José, can't be done. Crankshaft and pistons? Easy.