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Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.

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[-] Herbert_W@discuss.online 5 points 8 months ago

Fellow OpenSCAD user here. I'd recommend it to anyone as a thing to try, but not necessarily as a thing to certainly end up using.

I love how much control it gives you over your designs and how you can use that to make intelligently parametric parts. I'm continuously frustrated by how it expects you to make (or find libraries for) everything from scratch. For example, I've recently discovered ClosePoints which is (a) brilliant and (b) makes me wonder why the heck this functionality isn't built-in or at least in a default library. I've also found that using it for anything complicated has forced me to learn how to write better-organized code.

You still have to put in work to learn how to use it. It's just a different kind of work.

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