I cut my teeth on POV-Ray. It hasn't been updated in some time but being able to code scenes has a lot of advantages. For product design I use OpenSCAD. Maybe

I cut my teeth on POV-Ray. It hasn't been updated in some time but being able to code scenes has a lot of advantages. For product design I use OpenSCAD. Maybe POV-Ray made this style of design popular. A couple weeks ago I decided to use Blender for some 3D print modeling. I needed to make a wheel cap for my son, who had broken his. Although I love Blender I was disappointed when I wanted to update some things later in the design phase. Blender has some destructive editing that caused me grief. Perhaps you could avoid this with some additional mastery of the tool.