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by regularfry 746 days ago
In theory you can do code-based CAD with FreeCAD, but it's going to be more verbose than OpenSCAD and I haven't come across anyone doing that in anger.
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throw46365 746 days ago
Well, you can still use OpenSCAD of course (there's a workbench for it).

There's also a (deprecated) CadQuery 1.x workbench; a Build123D workbench would be great for sure.

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regularfry 746 days ago
Yeah, I was thinking more of the current python API. But anything that spits out OpenCascade is probably useful.
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throw46365 746 days ago
The Python console spits out usable but verbose code as you work, and I guess the macro recorder interfaces with that -- then you can tidy it up.

But it's not as elegant an abstraction.

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