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I can't believe people aren't mentioning solvespace. Basically my cad journey started with openscad. Which I quickly discarded for cadquery. Which I used for a

I can't believe people aren't mentioning solvespace. Basically my cad journey started with openscad. Which I quickly discarded for cadquery. Which I used for a bit. And now I use solvespace. Imo they all suck. Solvespace has serious issues with anything round. It's basically a no go to design anything that is round in it. I wanted to design a simple pen like structure with a slot, turned out to be impossible. Perhaps I'll get so annoyed I go back to cadquery...

mitthrowaway2 2y ago
Have you considered, perhaps, trying the FreeCAD 1.0 release candidate? It should be very quick to make this. Part Design -> sketch -> draw your pen shape -> revolution to make it round; then sketch -> pocket to make the slot.
hantusk 2y ago
Check out build123d, which has a nicer api for cadquery. I draw sketches in svg if the sketch shapes become too unmanagable to express in code
bvrmn 2y ago
+++ for build123d. Just finished TTT tutorial models and it was quite fun. There are some issues with non-regular fillets and 3d offsets but they are minor comparing to FreeCad crashes. Build123d algebra mode is fantastic, especially after your find out how to compose faces from custom line chains. Documentation is good, though many tricks how to get non-trivial tangent points could be found only in examples.