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by naasking 1208 days ago
Was FreeCAD unsuitable in some way? It's been around forever, also based on OpenCascade.
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afaik, FreeCAD is not code-driven or text-based. In the few minutes I played with it, it seems like a massive app which is sluggish on fast computers, and stores its data in an opaque binary format. So it's not really in the same category.
It has an OpenSCAD workbench if you're familiar with that, and it has Python embedded and it's used throughout:

https://wiki.freecad.org/Python