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by Joel_Mckay 746 days ago
Agreed, accounting for the complex imperfections in design specific plastic geometry can be hard to predict without successive approximation in parametric designs.

OpenSCAD does have some limitations, in that you will never really hit "perfect" tolerances in the output files either. However, the guess->print->measure->correct->repeat workflow is usually as good as it gets after a few cycles.

It can be more convenient than manually coding g-code macros, but OpenSCAD does certainly make 3D printing practical for actual parts.

Cheers =)