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by gibspaulding 772 days ago
OpenSCAD is really good for parametric designs. One of the first things I designed in OpenSCAD was a bicycle sprocket where you could input how many teeth you wanted, link length, how thick, etc. and OpenSCAD would generate the sprocket according to those parameters. I recall seeing a while back that blender was adding support for this kind of thing so I'm sure it's possible, but it was very intuitive in OpenSCAD.

For any large project I'm sure Blender (or FreeCAD) would be a better choice, but as someone with some programming background just starting out, OpenSCAD feels way more accessible.
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WillAdams 772 days ago
I've tried a lot of 3D software over the years, and OpenSCAD has been the one I've been most successful with (along w/ Carbide Create, but I work for that company....)

Currently working on a library which makes the two work together:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

(which is currently quite primitive/basic, and even when fully developed is not likely to be used by anyone else)

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