Parametric CAD in Rust
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Parametric CAD in Rust
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Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#2Unfortunately, using a geometry kernel [1] that operates on triangle meshes means this is a no-go for serious CAD usage.
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#3Unfortunately, using a geometry kernel [1] that operates on triangle meshes means this is a no-go for serious CAD usage. [1]: https://github.com/elalish/manifold
My whole CAD experience is with OpenSCAD, which apparently uses the same kernel; Honest question -- what is the alternative? I would assume the vast majority of 3D model processing relies on triangle meshes...
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#4Unfortunately, using a geometry kernel [1] that operates on triangle meshes means this is a no-go for serious CAD usage. [1]: https://github.com/elalish/manifold
My whole CAD experience is with OpenSCAD, which apparently uses the same kernel; Honest question -- what is the alternative? I would assume the vast majority of 3D model processing relies on triangle meshes...
libfive
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#5Curious to how well LLM's work in this context! (mentioned as one of the reasons to embed CAD in Rust)
I only know of another text -> STL AI model, I'm quite a bit more excited about this idea.
Does someone have experience with this?
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#6Interesting, because I am trying to learn OpenSCAD for some simple modeling.
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#7Unfortunately, using a geometry kernel [1] that operates on triangle meshes means this is a no-go for serious CAD usage. [1]: https://github.com/elalish/manifold
My whole CAD experience is with OpenSCAD, which apparently uses the same kernel; Honest question -- what is the alternative? I would assume the vast majority of 3D model processing relies on triangle meshes...
Breps. Nearly all commercial cad packages operate on boundary representations of objects.
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#8Unfortunately, using a geometry kernel [1] that operates on triangle meshes means this is a no-go for serious CAD usage. [1]: https://github.com/elalish/manifold
My whole CAD experience is with OpenSCAD, which apparently uses the same kernel; Honest question -- what is the alternative? I would assume the vast majority of 3D model processing relies on triangle meshes...
OpenCASCADE?
Re: Parametric CAD in Rust
#9I've been doing a similar thing using GhostSCAD[1], which is a relatively thin wrapper around OpenSCAD in Go. Not as typesafe, but my language of choice.
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