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0 pointsioquatix7y ago0 comments

After using OpenSCAD for several years, the more you use it the faster you get with it. I can easily whip out quite complex designs in a few hours. Visual CAD tools eventually start to feel very limiting.

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jandrese7y ago

I've hit some real walls with OpenSCAD though. Trying to create a 1000x1000 point mesh for example will blow up pretty much any machine. That's not an outrageous size for a large textured surface.

rspeele7y ago

What sorts of things do you model with OpenSCAD?

I love the "WYSIWYM" paradigm for the lack of surprises. You know what you can and can't change without having to mess things up, and you know what you need to come back to and adjust manually if you break things. And since there's no hidden state, you never find yourself wanting to just CTRL+Z back to the last "good" state, without knowing why.

But all that said, I really wouldn't know where to start modeling something like this in OpenSCAD.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BTXktw5yJfw/maxresdefault.jpg

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