[ltta]

I tried to get into various CAD applications at various points in time and never managed to "get it". It was mostly about the interface, you just have to invest a lot of time (more than I was willing to spend) to get even remotely useful results.

OpenSCAD on the other hand immediately clicked - at least for me as a programmer. I just had to look up the available primitives and combine them to my liking. This totally jibes with my mental model of the thing I want to build and parametrizing your models is pretty easy.

My main gripe with OpenSCAD is that it is missing good features to generate more "organic" shapes, i.e. beveled edges and rounded corners require a lot of work. They are possible (i.e. with Minkowski sums) but the resulting complex shapes quickly bring the engine to its knees.