For those features which match up positionally with parameters --- often I have to brush up on my trigonometry to work out a calculation which will provide the position of features which do not.
Right -- my trig is weak. Joan Horvath's "Make: Trigonometry", which teaches with OpenSCAD, is on my reading list [0]
bRep environments liberate you from trig to some extent because you can build on arbitrary faces and edges, so you'd get some of those parametric, auto-updating benefits with Build123D or CadQuery.
FreeCAD's sketcher tool means I've only resorted to trig a few times.
bRep environments liberate you from trig to some extent because you can build on arbitrary faces and edges, so you'd get some of those parametric, auto-updating benefits with Build123D or CadQuery.
FreeCAD's sketcher tool means I've only resorted to trig a few times.
[0] https://www.makershed.com/products/make-trigonometry-print