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ectoyesterday at 10:02 PM1 replyview on HN

You're correct, I'm completely uneducated! Pull requests welcome :)


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IshKebabyesterday at 10:22 PM

The pull request is to delete the project and open SOLIDWORKS or FreeCAD.

But don't actually delete it. It looks like a nice alternative to OpenSCAD. But like OpenSCAD it's really a niche thing for designs that are highly parametric like fasteners, gears, 3D printed boxes, etc.

Like OpenSCAD using it for normal "irregular" CAD is going to be extremely frustrating. Like editing an SVG in notepad instead of Inkscape.

I still feel like there's a unexplored space where you combine the benefits of both somehow though. Like a code-based CAD but it also has a GUI editor that stays in sync and avoids the need to type in coordinates by hand. That would be extremely difficult though.

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