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[Phil Stracchino]

On 8/9/21 12:17 PM, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> I was a huge fan of OpenSCAD when it first came out.  Using it was like
> using POV-Ray again for the first time in 20 yeasr.  Designing parts
> using CSG and then asking a slicer to turn it into G-code feels like
> magic.  But OpenSCAD has some really leaky abstractions in how it
> realizes primitives.  One has to declare up-front how many line segments
> are going to be used to approximate the outside edge of a cylinder, for
> example.
> 
> FreeCAD is a bit better.  It still has some really curious rough edges
> in terms of describing things like gemetric prisms or extruding a 2D
> shape along a path, but it seems far more hackable--even in place, from
> the Python prompt.

I have done some work with OpenSCAD.  I still find some things difficult
to do in it, but it is worlds friendlier and less buggy than BRLCAD,
which was the previous thing I tried.

I should check again and see if there is a viable FreeCAD ebuild for
Gentoo Linux yet.


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