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3D printing has been humbling for me. I can express myself well spatially in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD where you have to figure out what combinat
by randusername 9mo ago
3D printing has been humbling for me.
I can express myself well spatially in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD where you have to figure out what combination of buttons and parameters will do what I want.
I can manage dependencies well in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD. I continually struggle to design parts with geometry that is dependent on the spatial relationships and constraints of how multiple parts connect together.
- n00shie 9mo agoHave you ever tried https://openscad.org/ https://openscad.org/?
- m4rtink 9mo agoOpenSCAD is very nice but if you combine it with BOSL2 you can do miracles: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2 https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
- qazxcvbnmlp 9mo agoCad in general isn’t good at modeling spacial relationships between parts as a graph.
- WillAdams 9mo agoFWIW, I crashed and burned with pretty much every 3D CAD tool I tried (though I did make it through the tutorial for Dune 3D which was a first), but OpenSCAD has been quite workable, and the development of a Python-enabled version: https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ has allowed me to extend it to do things which would be quite difficult in other tools: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
- sokoloff 9mo agoDo you by any chance have over a decade of coding and under a year of CAD? You might have forgotten how hard coding was when you had under 200 hours of experience with it.
- swagmoney69 9mo agoOpen SCAD is great, but also give cadquery a shot. It's my personal favorite right now