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New visual programming environment: OpenSCAD Graph Editor (github.com/derkork)
2 points by WillAdams on Aug 4, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Announced/also discussed on Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/wf33tf/i_have_cre...

w/ releases for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor/releases/ta...

It's already been updated once since announcement, and the manual seems really good:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor/blob/master...

It seems a really promising tool, and the discussion on the Discord was quite enlightening. https://discord.com/invite/AsxWyczCJF

It supports all of OpenSCAD, and is extensible and able to use existing text/coded modules (BOSL-2 is cited as an example), and seems really promising --- I'm going to try porting: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview to it, just so I can re-factor the code and hopefully get a better understanding of it visually. That brings me to a question --- is there a way in code to determine if one is running OpenSCAD as opposed to a clone?


I showed this to my coworkers who are mechanical engineers (I am a software engineer) and it made them angry...

EDIT: It was this+OpenSCAD in general that enraged them!


Why?

Maybe finish them off by showing them Bowler Studio from:

http://commonwealthrobotics.com

It pretty much enrages me every time I try to use a traditional 3D CAD program --- or when I have to pay for one (the annual Veteran's license for SolidWorks, while a nice gesture was a pain, but at least my son was able to use it and a Connexion Spacemouse my sister bought him for his school projects).

May I ask? What sort of software engineering do you do in concert w/ mechanical engineers?




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