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Re:Design for 3D-Printing by WillAdams on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:20PM (#43891414)
I'm actually working on something along the lines of:

>CAD engine can do "production-aware design" that constrains design to the capabilities of standardized machines, e.g. keeping a metal part 3-d millable.

by modeling a part by only using subtraction based on tooling:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

you'll need: https://pythonscad.org/ but it's allowed me to do pretty much everything I've tried out in it thus far, and I'm putting the finishing touches on a joinery module which should let one make pretty much anything of wood, and metals should be much the same --- even turned out a thread cutting program as a proof of concept a while back.

Re:Design for 3D-Printing by hengheng on Monday May 05, 2025 @05:50AM (#43893327)
Oh, that looks nifty. I'm going to take a closer look at this!
Re:Design for 3D-Printing by gragundier on Monday May 05, 2025 @10:11AM (#43895362)
Never heard of pythonscad before, but I've always thought it would be a good idea (if only I honestly had the skill to make this myself). Thanks for the links!
Re:Design for 3D-Printing by WillAdams on Monday May 05, 2025 @11:18AM (#43896025)
It was absolutely game-changing for me --- I'd been flailing at this for a long while, and was most of the way there w/ RapSCAD, but stuck on it not being very popular --- within a week of release I had a working version of my library --- it's been nothing but upside since then.