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by WillAdams 1317 days ago
Every time I sit down to do anything non-trivial in OpenSCAD, I wonder if there isn't some better way of representing things --- I'd like for there to to be something better, but usually the solution to any problem put forth on the OpenSCAD mailing list is: "learn this bit of math and apply it thusly".

That said, I gave up on all this and have switched over to just modeling toolpaths:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

that way, I'm certain that whatever is modeled can actually be made, and I'm also certain that the modeling is not limited by arbitrary things. I've got an idea for a woodworking joint which I haven't been able to model so as to cut out in any other program, and I'm hoping this will let me finally manage it.

I've been using OpenSCAD Graph Editor (OSGE) as a front-end:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

which has been working well, though I'm trying not to be distracted by:

https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

having recently been announced.