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Oh I'm a FreeCAD person anyway. OpenSCAD was a useful stepping stone for me, from programming to 3D. But I've been doing my own designs in FreeCAD for two and
by throw646577 2y ago
Oh I'm a FreeCAD person anyway.
OpenSCAD was a useful stepping stone for me, from programming to 3D. But I've been doing my own designs in FreeCAD for two and a half years or so.
I just think the typical groundswell of HN support for OpenSCAD is a bit misguided; it sort of relies on near-wilfully ignoring what GUI CAD -- even FreeCAD -- can do for one's designs.
Yes, it's good for simple geometry, and some more advanced mathematical geometry. But it boxes you in pretty quickly because you cannot easily compose geometry based on the outputs of previous operations.
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoThe elephant in the room is the modular nature of FreeCAD. Unlike most cloud offerings, one can expand the capabilities with your own toolbox in a standard language like Python. We actually recommended FreeCad as a core to a small medical device manufacturer looking for a custom solution to dynamically tweak their process. i.e. even a simple workbench plugin that takes a few variables to generate a simple manifold, and CAM to gcode in the same program... was a huge benefit for users now locked out of Autodesk and Solidworks walled ecosystems. Ideal? No... Practical? You bet... Best of luck =3
- throw646577 2y agoRight. I think if you’re not reliant on a few generalist operations where opencascade is weak —- it is not great at very marginal fillets/chamfers/thicknesses —- then FreeCAD is probably a good way to get programmatic, GUI access to OCC. It’s not the only way, of course, but it’s getting towards being stable.