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by darksaints 743 days ago
Yeah, I was gonna add that FreeCAD probably has the best chance of becoming that sort of programming environment, and they've actually added a lot of great new features in the last year or so, including a reasonable solution to the topological naming problem [1]. Still a little clunky and has quite a few UI oddities, but overall it is taking shape a lot better than I ever expected. Really looking forward to their 1.0 release this year.

[1] https://wiki.freecad.org/Topological_naming_problem
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throw46365 743 days ago
Yes -- the weekly releases have been really promising. The TNP mitigation is not yet bug-free but I think next week's weekly will have fixes for a few bits.

The most striking thing is that there's experimental support for multiple separate solids in Part Design. RealThunder's experimental version has had this for a good while but I wasn't expecting it to be user-facing in 1.0, because so much of his work has needed refactoring to fit.

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