Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists

Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by sydd on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:02AM (#24505450)

InOpenScad you cannot edit models via mouse. You write scripts that look like this:

    // Outer box depth
    boxDepth = 60;
    // Lid height
    lidHeight = 10;
    module closeTab() {
        translate([-5, boxDepth/2+1, lidHeight-5]) {
        rotate(a=[180, 0, 0]) rotate(a=[0, 90, 0]) linear_extrude(height=10) polygon(points=[[10, -1], [9, 2.5], [8, 2.5], [7.5, 1], [-1, 1], [3, -1]]);
        }
    }

OpenSCAD itself just visualizes these and allows you to easily set parameters via a GUI. IMO this approach does not work for more complex models, makes small iterations much much slower. The difference between F360 and OpenSCAD is huge, its like comparing Paint to Photoshop.

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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by flubert on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:41PM (#24506833)

Is there a way to use openscad in a higher level manner? My ventures into it (very brief) leads me to believe it is very coordinate based. The tutorial for example:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_Tutorial/Chapter_1

...that seems like a low-level way to describe relations between the primitives. It reminds me of the coordinate virus:

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf

...hope that doesn't seem too negative. To put it another way, openscad seems like the C of geometric modeling, lowish level, procedural. Is there a Prolog or Haskell of 3D modeling?

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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:36PM (#24507514)

You parameterize everything and use a hierarchy of modules. Then high level changes flow down through the hierarchy.

OpenSCAD is the Prolog of 3D. It only looks C-ish but it isn't actually imperative which burns some people thinking that variable assignments are sequential.

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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by flubert on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:41PM (#24511284)

Do you know of a good example showcasing openscad's higher order features?

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