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jacquesmyesterday at 9:32 PM1 replyview on HN

It is amazing. I spend more time in OpenSCAD than in any other program I use and I'm amazingly productive with it. 3 to 4 cycles / day, the longest time is waiting for the printer to cough up the next iteration, then it is building debugging and improving again.

The power of parametric cad is such that I wouldn't be a 10th as productive using an interactive cad system. And because it is effectively software you are writing (even if it compiles into physical objects) you can use all of the goodies that you can use to manage software. Diff files, git, kompare, branching, merging. It is nothing short of amazing, it is like I have a design team and a prototype injection molding facility in one. And the turnaround time is something you'd have killed for in the 90's.


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echoangleyesterday at 9:35 PM

> The power of parametric cad is such that I wouldn't be a 10th as productive using an interactive cad system.

This sounds like parametric and interactive CAD are polar opposites. Normal CAD software is generally parametric too.

The other points about the advantage of text files still applies though.

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