3D printing has been humbling for me.

I can express myself well spatially in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD where you have to figure out what combination of buttons and parameters will do what I want.

I can manage dependencies well in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD. I continually struggle to design parts with geometry that is dependent on the spatial relationships and constraints of how multiple parts connect together.

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WillAdams 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

FWIW, I crashed and burned with pretty much every 3D CAD tool I tried (though I did make it through the tutorial for Dune 3D which was a first), but OpenSCAD has been quite workable, and the development of a Python-enabled version:

https://pythonscad.org/

has allowed me to extend it to do things which would be quite difficult in other tools:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

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n00shie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you ever tried https://openscad.org/?

	▲	m4rtink 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OpenSCAD is very nice but if you combine it with BOSL2 you can do miracles: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2

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qazxcvbnmlp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cad in general isn’t good at modeling spacial relationships between parts as a graph.