Comment by fainpul
10 hours ago
I'm with you. What I've learned from all those "programmatic CAD" threads is that some people just really prefer code over anything else. They also build only simple parts, so it's not an issue for them.
As the author says:
"I wanted to write my parts the way I write firmware. In Rust. With types. With version control."
Even as some who would generally prefer graphical CAD software in most cases, sometimes for simple parts like the examples in the linked article code really is just easier.
Sometimes it’s the same when I’m working on texturing for 3D models and I want to combine some texture maps in a specific way, I really don’t want to open Photoshop or similar for something that could be expressed in just a few lines of code. ImageMagick can probably do it, whatever it is, but then I need to learn the incantation.
It depends. I use Solidworks all the time but I think OpenSCAD was a great choice to make this part:
https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs
A bit like how you can edit images in MS Paint, Python, or Photoshop. None of these is or should be a one size fits all solution.