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Re:FreeCAD Simulator by rkangel on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:58AM (#25112386)
SolidPython is recommended in a sibling. Are there any others you can suggest?
Re:FreeCAD Simulator by ur-whale on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:40PM (#25131379)
SolidPython is the most mature and the one I'm using. There were others I tried before settling on solid, but TBH I forgot their name.

SolidPython has downsides though:

    - it is a giant PITA to install: you have to deploy that monstrous wart called "conda" which will gobble up 6G of your drive and fricking patch you .bashrc, all of this just so you can install solid

    - it lacks the following feature that native openscad has: "edit model source code with <insert fave editor here> and openscad will recompute the model automatically every time you save.
There's a way to implement that feature with an additional package (solidpython-reloader), but at that point, you've lost 80% of your target audience.