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I've made a bunch of stuff in OpenSCAD and it can be really nice to work with but... it does have a bunch of weirdnesses like not being to find the size of a co
by zimpenfish 2y ago
I've made a bunch of stuff in OpenSCAD and it can be really nice to work with but... it does have a bunch of weirdnesses like not being to find the size of a compound object, having to micro-manage your objects to avoid the spinning beach ball render, fillets/chamfers/rounded edges/etc. are dark arts, etc.
If you're basically sticking simple shapes together or cutting simple shapes out of other shapes, it's fine enough.
- arghwhat 2y agoYeah, it has its charms but... Good luck making a filet or a chamfer between two faces whose intersection has a non-trivial placement. Being able to easily reference existing edges and faces for future operations is one of the things that make other CAD so simple.
- traverseda 2y agoI have an openscad-alike that supports fillets/chamfers, but unfortunately getting it to support importing any third party file formats (DXF, SVG, STL) is a bit beyond me right now. https://github.com/traverseda/PySdfScad https://github.com/traverseda/PySdfScad I'd also love to find the time to rewrite the geometry kernel in something like taichi (python DSL running on GPU) or maybe JAX instead of numpy. And of course it doesn't yet pass most of openscad's test cases.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> Being able to easily reference existing edges and faces for future operations God, yes. Allegedly the BOSL library has some support for this kind of thing but I've not got around to trying it yet.