cadquery is great! I had been a Fusion 360 user for 3D printing, but then Autodesk started getting weird with hobbyist licensing. And Fusion's insistence on bei

cadquery is great! I had been a Fusion 360 user for 3D printing, but then Autodesk started getting weird with hobbyist licensing. And Fusion's insistence on being cloud-based was frustrating. Anyway, I went hunting for something else and found cadquery and haven't looked back. Modelling via code in cadquery is definitely a different approach in a lot of ways, but it is extremely powerful too: you get all the goodies like parameter-based, non-destructive history but also things that might not be obvious up front, like being able to "comment out" sections of your model (not just hide them - but skip generating them) temporarily, building up reusable helper routines, easily swapping out rough prototype vs thoroughly designed parts that are depended upon downstream in the model, and being able to organize complex models into separate modules. I don't think I'd necessarily recommend this approach to modelling to a non-developer, but if you're already a developer, it is tough to beat (for 3D printing at least).