openscad-graph-editor

_That_ is a question I want an answer for. Currently I am using OpenSCAD Graph Editor: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor to create programs: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/programming#open... but the fundamental question which remains unanswered is: >What does an algorithm look like?

Interesting. I've long been frustrated by traditional CAD/CAM, so finally worked up: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview which allows me to use: http://pythonscad.org/ and: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor to create joinery: https://forum.makerforums.info/t/openscad-and-python-looking... which would otherwise be tedious to draw up: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/creating-drawers/19475/26

Yes, unless you're a visually oriented person like myself who is trying to do the programming visually. I use: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor to try to design woodworking projects: https://forum.makerforums.info/t/openscad-and-python-looking... and I'd like to think that I'm managing to keep the visual appearance sufficiently expressive that it is easier to work with than a traditional textual code representation --- jury is still out on that, we'll see when I start re-purposing what I'm working on for odd/even sides, and then then doing the horizontal version of the joinery.

The problem here is that a fundamental question has not been answered, and as far as I can tell, has not been addressed by any of these visual environments: What does an algorithm look like? Herman Hesse alluded to this in his novel _The Glass Bead Game_, but despite decades of discussion and work, no one has made a convincing pysical representation of that system. I love the concept, and have made some moderately complex attempts, e.g.,: https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1430644 https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview it always devolves to screen size being out-paced by problem complexity --- one gets something of an inkling of this at: https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/ Alternately, one can just break a project down into modules, but then the top-level view becomes the wall of text representation (albeit w/ nic

I have been very pleased w/ and impressed by: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor and really want to look deeper into it to see if it could be forked to create a version which creates Python code.

Yes. OpenSCAD Graph Editor is done with an earlier version and runs on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

I'd really like to see someone get this right, but the problem is we don't seem to know the answer and are asking the wrong question: >What does an algorithm look like? Flowcharting and diagramming pre-date computers and used to be popular ways to define software workflows --- why hasn't that directly translated into coding? The Drakon Editor folks short-circuit this with the idea that the desirable option is always straight down --- is that a viable solution? The Node Editor folks have solutions which some folks use, but there are also sites filled with literal visual spaghetti code: https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/ It's been the better part of a century since Herman Hesse wrote _The Glass Bead Game_, but the most flexible systems still end up as a wall of text, which can be hard to format, or which one limits to plain text

I've been hoeing this row for a while now, and have a preference for these tools. My current favourite is BlockSCAD: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ which I've been using to explore 3D design and joinery: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project The problem always becomes one of extensibility --- if you use a lot of modules, while functionality goes up, the expressiveness/communicativeness of the code goes down because you're back at a wall of text --- it's just one in pretty blocks. What does an algorithm look like? The Drakon folks sidestep this by claiming that there should be one desired path and just connecting blocks in a straight line. I'm currently working in OpenSCAD Graph Editor: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor which exposes _all_ of the OpenSCAD language, and allows me to loop in RapCAD and am

I find dragging-dropping and re-arranging far more expressive for 3D modeling using BlockSCAD than I do the equivalent OpenSCAD code: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ I'm trying to achieve a similar fluency using OpenSCAD Graph Editor: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor hopefully a future version will be even more useful than BlockSCAD/Blockly.

It was used for: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor which I've been using quite successfully.

I am very grateful for Godot v3, since it is used to program: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor What other instances are there of non-game usage?