| ▲ | WillAdams 7 hours ago | |
I work on what should be pretty simple things (3D models of projects for CNC machines) and based on flet.dev recently announcing 1.0 and a quick test one-shotting a convincing protototype of a drawing program description which heretofore every such system had failed at miserably, decided to proceed with it. I got a quick prototype of a rabbet box generator: https://studio.flet.dev/run/bicQWc3Aul/ but the geometry was all wrong and ultimately required that I describe the calculation of the position and dimensions of each element in exhaustive detail in order to get a usable DXF (the wireframe preview is still all messed up) which eventually worked to make a box: https://community.carbide3d.com/uploads/default/original/3X/... I was also drawing the design up in an interactive CAD/CAM program, and modeling it in BlockSCAD/OpenSCAD (and dropping into BelfrySCAD to figure out rotation): https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/2169316 (and speaking of rotation, at this time, the sliding and hinged lid options open on opposite sides in the preview...) Since then, I've made a very simple generator which simple does a box decorated with lines, arcs, and circles on each side --- my intention is to dis-assemble that and use it to write a Domain Specific Language implementation for creating such designs and previewing them and writing out DXFs --- which is a long-winded way of saying I've been finding this tooling frustrating to use, but potentially useful to make rough drafts of programming templates which can then be used as a starting point for more traditional coding. Eventually all of this will go into: | ||
