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Ahh, it is b-rep and intended to be language-agnostic? Very cool. OpenSCAD is fun but I am kind of reluctant to get too far into it when there's really only a
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Ahh, it is b-rep and intended to be language-agnostic?
Very cool.
OpenSCAD is fun but I am kind of reluctant to get too far into it when there's really only at best a difficult journey to STEP support (via the OpenSCAD workbench in FreeCAD).
And as for other CSG languages, Nick Lockwood's ShapeScript is fun:
https://github.com/nicklockwood/ShapeScript https://github.com/nicklockwood/ShapeScript
https://apps.apple.com/app/shapescript/id1441135869 https://apps.apple.com/app/shapescript/id1441135869
But a path to producing STEP seems essential to me, to move beyond 3D printers.
CadQuery (especially v2) is fascinating and there's even a FreeCAD workbench for v2 now. Cascade Studio is very interesting indeed.
But I will be following this with interest. Not least because it might prod me into playing with Rust.
- dTal 5y agoThere's also the undeservedly-obscure ZenCad: https://mirmik.github.io/zencad/en/index.html https://mirmik.github.io/zencad/en/index.html It's basically OpenSCAD but with Python and BRep (through OpenCascade).
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI looked at this but I didn't install it. It does have a bunch of useful characteristics. (e.g. while I have exactly the kind of deep jQuery past that the CadQuery devs are trying to evoke, I'm not super-sold on that syntax; I happily gave up jQuery once there were better things!) But unless something has changed since I read about it, it is limited to STL export. While there are more and more ways to get STLs printed in novel materials, for some of the things I would like to make, a more traditional CNC route seems likely, and I'd rather start as I mean to go on.