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by jlarocco
4041 days ago
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My last job, at a CAD company, we had a competition to see who could create the coolest models programmatically using the new Javascript based scripting language we were creating. My entry was a library that could generate Lego pieces, which I used to build a Lego truck. I can't find a pic of the full truck, but here are some samples: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fu7xc4cjda2kyx4/lego7.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/33dws1ug5vzyfe6/lego6.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z85257nidmpkdz/lego5.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ks8ctcfcbxan3dq/lego1.png?dl=0 Anyway, as much as I enjoyed creating the truck, the reality is that a decent mechanical engineer, experienced in SolidWorks, CATIA, or other parametric CAD, could have built the truck in a fraction of the time that it took me. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that even I would have been faster in a parametric modeler, and I'm a software engineer. EDIT: I should also mention that the Javascript binding was primarily for developers to test out the modelling kernel's API, rather than creating actual parts. |
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