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If you want a classical GUI based cad tool for 3D modelling, I'd suggest taking a look at solve space and dune3d
thanks for recs, will check them out
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freecad with the new ui + its openscad integration is pretty good. openscad in general is quite easy if you can functionally program
AFAIK FreeCAD's core OpenSCAD replacement is being suggested for replacement with an alternative so things may further improve. OpenSCAD in a FreeCAD context does address many of the limitations of OpenSCAD, but it's not perfectly compatible.
If I could use FreeCAD by programming in OpenSCAD, I'd be far more inclined to use it.
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Curious. How much experience do you have with any form of CAD? Is the preference based on that you tried graphical CAD software and you found them lacking, or is it based on imagining how they might work? Last week at the hackspace someone asked me to quickly design a manifold which holds together a scuba mouth piece, a 48mm diameter valve and a nato 40mm screw fitting. They wanted to minimise the internal tidal volu…
I've also been asking myself what people do with programmatic CAD. I've used OpenSCAD once to create a simple, cylindrical object, but about 80% of the things I create (using conventional CAD, like Fusion 360) would be way too complex for that. And even the simplest shapes are just much faster to create and modify in Fusion. Maybe this is the "everything looks like a nail" problem for programmers who have never tried…
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AFAIK FreeCAD's core OpenSCAD replacement is being suggested for replacement with an alternative so things may further improve. OpenSCAD in a FreeCAD context does address many of the limitations of OpenSCAD, but it's not perfectly compatible.
That's a shame. If I could use FreeCAD by programming in OpenSCAD, I'd be far more inclined to use it.
https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import
There's also a CadQuery 2 workbench now: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/
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Zoo has said it's open to local hosting of the kernel for years. I believe it's a matter of time because it's mostly about legal tape. ucad is based on Manifold, so unfortunately, not really comparable, since it's all meshes vs brep, like OpenSCAD. Note KCL could be completely augmented with another kernel. There are people who've already tried :)
I asked sometime in 2024 and I got a pretty clear response that local/self hosting is not planned.
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This is my understanding as well.
It's incorrect, then! Lots changed since 2020 in the current 1.0.2 release, including TNP mitigations and the core assembly workbench. The 1.1 developer release (which is stable and useful and getting quite close to final release) contains further TNP mitigations; further improvements to the core assembly workbench; radically better lighting; datums have moved into the core; there's a way of enabling the advanced att…
Maybe I don't use FreeCAD to it's fullest (I don't) and maybe I don't stay on top of the latest changes (I don't), but I learned years ago to avoid the TNP, and haven't been bothered by it since.
The only noticeable changes in recent years to me have been window dressing, plain and simple. Maybe crashes are less often, but I've also learned not to do things that cause crashes many years ago.
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Zoo has said it's open to local hosting of the kernel for years. I believe it's a matter of time because it's mostly about legal tape. ucad is based on Manifold, so unfortunately, not really comparable, since it's all meshes vs brep, like OpenSCAD. Note KCL could be completely augmented with another kernel. There are people who've already tried :)
Don't they use their own kernel? What legal tape?
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That's a shame. If I could use FreeCAD by programming in OpenSCAD, I'd be far more inclined to use it.
There is another workbench — indeed I think this is possibly a candidate to replace the core one: https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import There's also a CadQuery 2 workbench now: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/
It's especially nice that CadQuery has come full circle (having started as a workbench).
I've been using zoo and its KCL language with some success for boundary-representation CAD writing. If I understood correctly, µcad serves the same purpose. Comparing code samples between both of them, I personally enjoy KCL's pipelined approach more. My main beef with zoo is the fact that they are promoting vendor lock-in by forcing users to use their cloud-hosted geometry kernel with absolutely no local alternative…
Lego brick in build123d: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_lego.htm... Gear in build123d: https://github.com/GarryBGoode/gggears
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