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I’m also a content OpenSCAD user. I had zero 3D design experience when I bought my first 3D printer. OpenSCAD let me use my coding skills to program shapes for

I’m also a content OpenSCAD user. I had zero 3D design experience when I bought my first 3D printer. OpenSCAD let me use my coding skills to program shapes for printing. I find the code-first approach much easier to reason about than graphics-first software. Similarly, mm precision has been fine. All my dimensions are specified in mm, and parts come off the printer at the scale intended. I’ve also had good luck with some open source OpenSCAD programs, particularly in the Gridfinity ecosystem. OpenSCAD could use some polish, and perhaps a better packaging system, but it’s a reliable tool for me.

badcppdev 2y ago
Halfway through the Gridfinity intro video and I've come back to thank you. (I'm also already exhausted from the level of manic energy from Zach but I'll try drinking two cups of coffee and hope that gets me to the end)
- steve_adams_86 2y ago
  I enjoy his energy so much, but it might be because we’ve both got ADHD and his pace, unnecessary divergences from the topic, alliteration, and absurdist humour gratifies my attention span and keeps me focused. That might seem counter intuitive.
  - philsnow 2y ago
    I about had a stroke when I got to 11m54s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8#t=11m54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8#t=11m54s ; I think this is the correct transcription of that sentence: > I did a whole episode on how more printers' printers print prints for printers' printers than printers print prints for printed projects
15155 2y ago
Cadquery is what you are looking for.
philsnow 2y ago
I also reach for OpenSCAD first when designing something for a 3d print, for a couple reasons: 1. I also didn't really have any actual 3d "design" experience before using OpenSCAD, except for in the 90s/00s when I played around with POVRay as a hobby, but OpenSCAD definitely feels a lot like writing POVRay scenes. 2. My first exposure to graphics programming was in OpenGL, and the OpenSCAD language's focus on transformations applying to children "rhymes" with that very well (they're just like a C-style if/for/while block, where you can either nest several things inside { } or else just have a single statement following the control structure and the transform applies only to that one thing, so cube(1); translate([1,1,1])cube(1); translate([2,2,2])cube(1); is equivalent to cube(1); translate([1,1,1]){ cube(1); translate([1,1,1]){ cube(1); } } which is in turn equivalent to module cubechain(n) { if (n > 0) { cube(1); translate([1,1,1])cubechain(n - 1); } } cubechain(3); and you can indeed make neat L-systems and such out of primitives and recursion.

badcppdev 2y ago

Halfway through the Gridfinity intro video and I've come back to thank you. (I'm also already exhausted from the level of manic energy from Zach but I'll try drinking two cups of coffee and hope that gets me to the end)

steve_adams_86 2y ago
I enjoy his energy so much, but it might be because we’ve both got ADHD and his pace, unnecessary divergences from the topic, alliteration, and absurdist humour gratifies my attention span and keeps me focused. That might seem counter intuitive.
- philsnow 2y ago
  I about had a stroke when I got to 11m54s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8#t=11m54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8#t=11m54s ; I think this is the correct transcription of that sentence: > I did a whole episode on how more printers' printers print prints for printers' printers than printers print prints for printed projects

15155 2y ago

Cadquery is what you are looking for.

philsnow 2y ago

I also reach for OpenSCAD first when designing something for a 3d print, for a couple reasons: 1. I also didn't really have any actual 3d "design" experience before using OpenSCAD, except for in the 90s/00s when I played around with POVRay as a hobby, but OpenSCAD definitely feels a lot like writing POVRay scenes. 2. My first exposure to graphics programming was in OpenGL, and the OpenSCAD language's focus on transformations applying to children "rhymes" with that very well (they're just like a C-style if/for/while block, where you can either nest several things inside { } or else just have a single statement following the control structure and the transform applies only to that one thing, so cube(1); translate([1,1,1])cube(1); translate([2,2,2])cube(1); is equivalent to cube(1); translate([1,1,1]){ cube(1); translate([1,1,1]){ cube(1); } } which is in turn equivalent to module cubechain(n) { if (n > 0) { cube(1); translate([1,1,1])cubechain(n - 1); } } cubechain(3); and you can indeed make neat L-systems and such out of primitives and recursion.