I've played around some with OpenSCAD and I do find it super super cool. I've also played around with Autodesk Inventor (got a student copy for free) and if the

I've played around some with OpenSCAD and I do find it super super cool. I've also played around with Autodesk Inventor (got a student copy for free) and if the code portion of OpenSCAD is causing you trouble, you can do a huge amount of the parametric type stuff in Inventor too. It seemed pretty unapproachable at first, but it's really as easy as adding a dimension like "WALL_HEIGHT=5cm" the first time, and reusing "WALL_HEIGHT" as your dimension everywhere else. Change one, badda bing, the constraint solver goes through and updates your model everywhere. I'm so glad to see this stuff all taking off. For the longest time, I was shocked at how hard it was to do, and now that I'm back into it, it has gotten much much easier!