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Re:OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects by jandrese on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:39AM (#18806389)
Have you tried SketchUp[1]? I moved off of it to OpenSCAD awhile back, but it seemed to work ok for what I needed.

[1] https://www.sketchup.com/

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Re:OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects by StavrosK on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:45AM (#18806424)
Yes, unfortunately SketchUp isn't parametric, which I definitely need, and it tends not to produced closed solids, which creates problems for 3D printing.
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Re:OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects by profsnuggles on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:40AM (#18807455)
Check out BricsCAD. Bricsys recently released shape for free, to compete with Sketchup I guess. It's a reskinned and (greatly) simplified version of their CAD product. https://www.bricsys.com/en-intl/shape/

The higher tier packages have a 3d constraint system. Imagine Sketchup and AutoCAD had a baby with some parametrics thrown in.

I personally own Sketchup, TurboCAD and BricsCAD. BricsCAD is the one I use the most, it obsoletes Sketchup for me totally. I much prefer it to the AutoCAD OEM I use at work and I possibly would pick it over SolidWorks. Although my SolidWorks experience is much more limited.

It's still proprietary but one of the few CAD packages I found that runs on linux and you can own without paying a monthly fee.

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