openscad-graph-editor

A similar tool which directly makes OpenSCAD code is: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor (though you'd want to import BOSL2 to do fillets and so forth)

One of my favourite tools. As noted, use the Nightly builds from: https://openscad.org/downloads.html#snapshots When working with kids, it's well worth keeping: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ in mind, or for folks who like to draw connections: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor Eventually, someone will note that its programming model limits variables and so forth --- for folks who want a more traditional language choice there are a number of options, notably for Python: https://pythonscad.org/

I've long been fascinated by this question, probably spurred on by having read Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ (originally published as _Magister Ludi_) when I was impressionably young. The problem of course is: ``What does an algorithm look like?'' Depicting one usually directs one into flowchart territory, and interestingly efforts at that style of programming often strive for simplicity, e.g., the straight-down preference from Raptor or Drakon --- systems which do not implement that often become a visual metaphor for ``spaghetti code'': https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/ https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/ As a person who uses: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ and https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor a fair bit, and needs to get Ryven up-and-running again (or to fix the OpenSCAD layer in his current p

I've crashed and burned in FreeCAD each time I've tried it (to be fair, that's happened in every other traditional 3D CAD program I've tried except Dune 3D) --- hoping that someone will update: https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/books/freecad for the new UI --- any word on that? (Just an annotated copy would be great) Apparently, one of the devs from Ondsel has done a soft-fork and is stumping for funding: https://www.astocad.com/ (but he wasn't interested in the feature I want, see below) That said, I managed to make it through the tutorial for Dune 3D twice now (after a fashion), and I think that the tutorial needs to do a better job of explaining concepts from first principles: https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/discussions/118 and https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/discussions/252 c.f., my own attempt to explain the commercial CAD/CAM softw

Is there anything in this which will make it easier/better to make GUI applications? https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor kind of has me considering using Godot for creating a drawing program....

Remember that your perception of the past has been filtered by what survived Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) --- the problem is that this is now doubled with a layer of AI, so it's something like: 90% of everything is AI-generated, of the 10% which is left, 90% of it is crap, leaving just 1% of articulate, interesting, well-crafted content. So, either work to create that 1% of interesting content, or filter/curate to find it. I will note that there is a _lot_ of interesting old work which has dropped off the radar --- Hermann Hesse's _Magister Ludi_/_The Glass Bead Game_ was a book which greatly inspired me in my youth (arguably, it's why I use programming tools such as: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor ) --- read it?

Still working on a system for allowing Open(Python)SCAD to model cuts for a CNC using G-code, and just added support for 3D Printing via Full-control G-code: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview Hopefully I can restore the OpenSCAD interface layer and get it working with OpenSCAD Graph Editor: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor again. Having trouble finding FCG examples which do more than move in straight lines though...