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interesting 3d cad program
In article 2isr5chr1ouvp3bfemuebt1140uovrhuk1@
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:55:48 -0800, Electric Comet
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have been trying out a program for making 3d models called openscad
What's wrong with Sketchup?
instead of clicking a mouse to create your object you define it
programatically
You can do that in Sketchup, too.
so far just playing with it to understand how it works
not sure how to generate dimension text
the syntax is not too abstract but it is an entirely new way to design
in 3d
Doesn't sound very useful to me.
If the "new thing" about it is "defining
programmatically", there's nothing new about
that. That's how Autocad has _always_ worked.
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