Good luck! CAD modelling is difficult even as a user, creating software that does it well must be significantly more so. I can sympathize with the OP regarding

Good luck! CAD modelling is difficult even as a user, creating software that does it well must be significantly more so. I can sympathize with the OP regarding OpenSCAD. Beyond some of its technical limitations, it's missing some absolutely critical base features. One of the most egregious ones, in my opinion, is the lack of a simple builtin measuring tool[1]. There are threads going back to 2013 asking for this feature, with no plans to implement that I can tell. 1: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/1768 https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/1768