I’d love to see this. It was a frustrating learning curve for me to realize that I couldn’t STEP export work from OpenSCAD to something like Fusion.

Build123d is much better (supports STEP export and import) but a tightly integrated CAD frontend would be ideal!

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WillAdams 2 days ago | parent [-]

PythonSCAD now has STEP export:

https://github.com/pythonscad/pythonscad

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rao-v a day ago | parent [-]

Wait to usefully import and export STEP you need to be BREP based right? I thought SCAD’s engine was fundamentally incompatible (only really one open source BREP engine out there - OpenCascade)

	▲	WillAdams a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Pretty much, that's why for DXF export I rolled my own: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/dxfexpor... (shows a DXF w/ arcs) https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcpdxf.p... (shows a .py file for making DXFs) See the PDF at the top level for more information.
	▲	Cargo4286 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, AFAIK you are correct that SCAD is incapable of outputting clean STEP files.