Post AY8suI4LCJxGpcQaa8 by james@social.ncot.uk
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 (DIR) Post #AY8suI4LCJxGpcQaa8 by james@social.ncot.uk
       2023-07-27T08:41:19Z
       
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       #3dprinting people, apart from giving my soul to Autodesk so I can use Fusion, what's the alternatives?I don't mind OpenSCAD for simple shapes, but trying to actually model anything in it feels like I'm doing it the hard way.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY8suIwZwfL9Xpnu7c by mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
       2023-07-27T11:47:51Z
       
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       @james One more voice saying that #FreeCAD can do a lot. I prefer written to video tutorials, but there just aren't enough clear up to date written tutorials that I've found beyond @concretedog 's  book that has already been recommended to you. I think the best introductory videos right now for FreeCAD are here:https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutionsI used OpenSCAD a lot for a few years, but now I gravitate to FreeCAD. Fillets and chamfers on all the things was what really first motivated me, and then I learned enough to prefer it most of the time. There are times I really miss just coding, but more often the ability to visualize as I go wins out for me.If you really like the coding aspect and want to try another approach, try #CadQuery — pure Python and has an approach that makes fillets and chamfers work: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
       
 (DIR) Post #AY8suJwGFKgEd8fAGW by mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
       2023-07-27T12:48:06Z
       
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       @james @concretedog I should also call out that the development builds of #OpenSCAD have the not (yet?) on by default ability to use the Manifold kernel that always produces manifold geometry (thus the name) and is wicked fast. I've only found one model so far that I've used where #Manifold produced different output than the default kernel.So inasmuch as rendering speed is one of the things getting in your way in OpenSCAD, going into preferences in the latest development builds and enabling fastcsg and Manifold options might change your experience positively.I took a model that I had previously not chamfered, and added a set of chamfers by a minkowski with the union of two cones, and it rendered almost instantly. ❤️