Prusa3 VS NopSCADlib

Back when Prusa-the-person designed the original i3 I'm pretty sure there were no other Free Software CAD tools than openscad. I don't think it's a huge loss if they abandon openscad (as long as STEP files are provided) since the source for the i3 was uhhh... not exactly the paragon of openscad design (magic numbers, magic numbers everywhere). There's a variant which is parametric but hasn't seen any updates since before the MK2. My reprap is based on some bastardization of the Wilson reprap and my own custom 10mm variant of the old community i3 repo, but I managed to make it even worse because I was looking at the z-axis parts upside down and completely hosed the coordinate system and other fun things (the joys of hacking on a large blob of mediocre openscad while also not knowing anything yourself about cad...) and then I got busy and I'm so distant from it now I can never get myself to go back in and fix it.

Prusa also contributed actively to rep rap, making improvements on the mendel printer, and improved the printer through a couple iterations until he hit the third iteration(i3), that is the basis of the MK series. Before shipping his own product, he shared the design on GitHub, and plenty of low cost manufacturers picked up on his source and blatantly produced their own i3 printers.

https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3 is the repository of the Prusa i3 (without "MK" at that time, but I guess it's MK1 then...). I found https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/box_frame/common.tdoc which has some vitamins for the frame; you may look around if you find further *.tdoc files with more parts. Maybe also https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3-vanilla . Also, some README mentions a documentation file, but I could not find it quickly - might want to check for yourself if you find more docs there.

They don't seem to be aware of https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib which has been around for an age.

If you're looking for examples of high quality openscad code, dotSCAD is pretty cool. nophead (old school reprap person and one of the openscad developers) has a parts library that I think is high quality.

As for now there is no library of parts for SolveSpace similar to NopSCADLib for r/OpenSCAD or FreeCAD library for r/FreeCAD.

This is exciting news. And I enjoyed to learn that some investigation on adding parallelism has been done. OpenSCAD is my main design driver, so when I hit these performance corners, it'd drive me nuts.

OpenSCAD and https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib is a winning combo.

It's going to take you more than a few days. There are a bunch of libraries out there: https://github.com/topics/openscad-library is a whole list of them plus https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib has tons of prebuild parts you can modify.

I cnc'ed the front panel of the box, but it would be interesting to have a tool for panels specifically. Best thing I could find that goes in the same direction is this project https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4947863 based on the ultimate box maker and NopSCADlib https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib/

All the designs we're drawing for https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Main_Page are done using our branch of https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib which contains some work yet to be upstreamed here: https://github.com/timschmidt/replimat

I've spent a lot of time improving the CAD situation around the system. All our core parts are now a part of https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib which automatically generates assembly instructions, bills of material, 2D and 3D CAD files for cutting and printing, etc. Eventually it will generate machine control commands directly.

Here's the code.

I suppose something like this might help too.. https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib#pcb