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I’d love to see this. It was a frustrating learning curve for me to realize that I couldn’t STEP export work from OpenSCAD to something like Fusion. Build123d
by rao-v 7mo ago
I’d love to see this. It was a frustrating learning curve for me to realize that I couldn’t STEP export work from OpenSCAD to something like Fusion.
Build123d is much better (supports STEP export and import) but a tightly integrated CAD frontend would be ideal!
- WillAdams 7mo agoPythonSCAD now has STEP export: https://github.com/pythonscad/pythonscad https://github.com/pythonscad/pythonscad
- rao-v 7mo agoWait to usefully import and export STEP you need to be BREP based right? I thought SCAD’s engine was fundamentally incompatible (only really one open source BREP engine out there - OpenCascade)
- Cargo4286 7mo agoYes, AFAIK you are correct that SCAD is incapable of outputting clean STEP files.
- WillAdams 7mo agoPretty much, that's why for DXF export I rolled my own: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/dxfexport.dxf https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/dxfexpor... (shows a DXF w/ arcs) https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcpdxf.py https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcpdxf.p... (shows a .py file for making DXFs) See the PDF at the top level for more information.