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This is great, we need more of this sort of thing. Huge kudos for making it and documenting it. I will definitely be taking it for a spin. 1) Do you plan to ad

by dTal 4y ago

This is great, we need more of this sort of thing. Huge kudos for making it and documenting it. I will definitely be taking it for a spin. 1) Do you plan to add 'loft'? Without it, or some other type of morphing extrude, one is severely limited in the types of shapes it is possible to create. 2) I hope you don't mind me asking, what is the psychedelic-looking image I can see a sliver of in the screenshot? It looks like a rocking desktop background. By the way, if you're not already aware of it, you may also be interested in looking at ZenCad for inspiration. It attempts to fill a similar niche (OpenSCAD-ish modeling + OpenCascade), except it uses Python.

dschroer 4y ago
Thanks for checking it out. I am glad you like it. 1. Now that you have asked for it, I certainly plan on adding `loft`. Thank you for the suggestion. Looking quickly it looks quite reasonable to implement. I would expect to add it in the near future. 2. It is a digital art coloring book image that I filled in and used as a background.
virtualritz 4y ago
Here is another programmable CAD project, Fornjot[1], also in Rust. Fornjot, too, is being actively developed. Unfortunately it uses Rust for model description (compile times/learning curve). That said, one could probably easily put a layer of scipting lang in-between. E.g. Rhai[2] or Lua or whatever. And I guess if their tech is solid enough, someone will do that eventually and open a PR or fork the project. They do not use an existing geomtry kernel but do everything from scratch which makes this a very interesting endeavour. There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD [1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot [2] https://rhai.rs/ https://rhai.rs/
- hannobraun 4y ago
  Hey, author of Fornjot here. Rust was chosen as a modeling language for two reasons: 1. Since the whole project is written in Rust, it was the most straight-forward choice. No dealing with bindings to another language or a scripting language runtime for the time being. 2. To provide an interesting alternative. I suspect that there can be a nice niche for Rust, creating infrastructure for writing models (e.g. libraries for generating screw threads, that kind of stuff). I don't think that Rust is a great language for defining CAD models. Long-term, I suspect that the preferred choice for Fornjot will be something else. But for the time being, this decision allows me to focus on the CAD kernel. > There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD Do you have a link for DieselCAD? Searching on Google only got me car results.
  - virtualritz 4y ago
    DieselCAD = DSLCAD = the very subject of this disussion. :) https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad
    - hannobraun 4y ago
      Ah, sorry! I missed that bit in the README and got confused :)

by dTal 4y ago

dschroer 4y ago

Thanks for checking it out. I am glad you like it. 1. Now that you have asked for it, I certainly plan on adding `loft`. Thank you for the suggestion. Looking quickly it looks quite reasonable to implement. I would expect to add it in the near future. 2. It is a digital art coloring book image that I filled in and used as a background.

virtualritz 4y ago

Here is another programmable CAD project, Fornjot[1], also in Rust. Fornjot, too, is being actively developed. Unfortunately it uses Rust for model description (compile times/learning curve). That said, one could probably easily put a layer of scipting lang in-between. E.g. Rhai[2] or Lua or whatever. And I guess if their tech is solid enough, someone will do that eventually and open a PR or fork the project. They do not use an existing geomtry kernel but do everything from scratch which makes this a very interesting endeavour. There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD [1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot [2] https://rhai.rs/ https://rhai.rs/

hannobraun 4y ago
Hey, author of Fornjot here. Rust was chosen as a modeling language for two reasons: 1. Since the whole project is written in Rust, it was the most straight-forward choice. No dealing with bindings to another language or a scripting language runtime for the time being. 2. To provide an interesting alternative. I suspect that there can be a nice niche for Rust, creating infrastructure for writing models (e.g. libraries for generating screw threads, that kind of stuff). I don't think that Rust is a great language for defining CAD models. Long-term, I suspect that the preferred choice for Fornjot will be something else. But for the time being, this decision allows me to focus on the CAD kernel. > There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD Do you have a link for DieselCAD? Searching on Google only got me car results.
- virtualritz 4y ago
  DieselCAD = DSLCAD = the very subject of this disussion. :) https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad
  - hannobraun 4y ago
    Ah, sorry! I missed that bit in the README and got confused :)