ZenCad is a good start but it needs more development to have API as close as possible to OpenSCAD as I like to memorize one set of API. I discovered ZenCad (Python with PyOCC/OpenCASCADE) and past weeks coded a OpenSCAD like layer on top of it, still Python though. I did ScriptCAD but haven’t developed it further as the underlying CSG operations are slow and therefore any kind of serious designing is slow even though I added very basic caching. OPENSCAD ASSEMBLY SOFTWAREPosted in Software Hacks Tagged browser, cad, openscad Post navigation It has the handy effect of bringing the CAD package to platforms such as tablets or Chromebooks which wouldn’t normally be an OpenSCAD platform, and this we like, a lot. The move among desktop applications to move into the browser and often into a pay-to-play cloud has seemed relentless over recent years, so it’s pleasing to see a rare example of a browser migration that’s open-source. Despite being very similar, we’re happy to report there’s no rivalry here in fact, according to the video after the break, it sounds like two the projects have already swapped a bit of code. He’s using the same core developed by, but has combined it with the Monaco editor from Microsoft and a Javascript STL viewer. We didn’t try exporting and printing an STL, but so far it has given us no reason to believe it wouldn’t be every bit as useful as the version you’re used to.īut wait, there’s more! Parallel to this effort, has also been working on his own idea of what OpenSCAD in the web should be. Opening it up and giving it a go, we found it to be a very usable OpenSCAD version, albeit a little slower to render than the desktop equivalent on a mediocre laptop. From there, it just needed to get paired with a user interface, and off to the cloud we go. Developer ultimately answered the call with openscad-wasm, which implements the core of OpenSCAD as a JavaScript ES6 module. The origins of this project can be tracked back to August of 2021, when when Autodrop3D’s offered a sizable bounty for anyone willing to port the parametric CAD modeler to web assembly. It’s maybe not for everyone but it has a significant following, and its reach has been extended further as you can now run it from within a modern web browser. OpenSCAD is a CAD package for coders, in which all design elements are created in a scripting language rather than graphically. In a world of CAD packages with arcane or unfriendly interfaces there’s a stand-out player that’s remarkable because it has no interface.
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