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> seriously, I think people overestimate how hard basic CAD work is

I think this is one of those things that programmers overestimate worse than non-programmers, too. To the point that they reject CAD UIs too early and get themselves stuck in often rather limiting code-CAD environments, because they never get to learn how parametric GUI CAD works.

This belief that only code can be intuitively parametric is obviously not something that non-programmers suffer from.

I think code-CAD has many benefits (though the idea of the various LLM-to-OpenSCAD tools out there makes me shudder; this is the worst possible combination of obscure knowledge-bases).

But just a trivial amount of time learning even FreeCAD (the least-intuitive CAD package, pretty unambiguously) unlocks so much potential.