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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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