Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD

Re:Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD by buserror on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:04AM (#12651078)

Does it get as bad as OpenSCAD? I found that anything even remotely complex using OpenSCAD brings the machine down to a crawl. And I'm on an overclocked 5930K with 64GB ram ;-)

I'd be very curious to see a couple screenshot of your project! I used Google Sketchup to do landscaping last year around my house; I wonder how this would compare...

sketchup plan: https://goo.gl/photos/Qc5mEnFiFm9UWBvv8 reality: https://goo.gl/photos/Gn66MSc8UPshR3CC8

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Re:Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD by tgirod on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:07AM (#12666830)

Here you go!

http://imgur.com/a/LOBge

The design is a bit crude, but the goal was to get the structure's dimensions right. And it worked!

http://imgur.com/a/rCZfk

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Re:Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD by ggoss on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:28AM (#12659260)

Try throwing render() around heavy blocks of code. That should speed up successive renders quite a bit.

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Re:Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD by pawadu on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:32AM (#12651866)

Have you tried freecad? I think it uses openscad as backend but has a slightly better (and faster) UI.

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Re:Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD by grp on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:11AM (#12652111)

It uses Open Cascade: https://www.opencascade.com/

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