alt Hacker NewsInteresting. I have played with OpenScad a bit. This looks similar - i guess the difference is the syntax is python - any other major differences
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DrNefario • today at 2:19 AM
CadQuery can export STEP files, and is overall much nicer to use in my opinion.
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OpenSCAD is all triangles and vertices. Fillets are difficult to do. Outputting circles/spheres generally requires you to for-loop over vertices a lot.
Libraries like build123d and cadquery use OpenCASCADE, a boundary representation kernel. You think in terms of the enclosed solid and perform operations - boolean add/subtract, fillet/chamfer, stamp text, etc - that return a new solid.