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by imglorp 1698 days ago
As a successful power user making physical objects, I'm wondering how you work without dimensioned drawings?

If you want to learn the distance between two arbitrary points on a part, you need to read the code, and sometimes even do some trig even if you wrote the code. Having markings on the axes is not the same thing: you really want to select two points on a drawing and say "show me this".

This is my biggest wish for OpenSCAD.

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> This is my biggest wish for OpenSCAD.

Even better would be a procedural way to "measure" things on models returned by code.

e.g. a method that would return a sorted list of intersection points between a 3D line and a model.

This would be a killer feature for OpenSCAD.

This is all the more sad that the underlying engine (CGAL) does support this feature.