sdfx VS libfive

Go: https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

Object Oriented Programming is a way to go to create CAD tool for school project, not golang (too hard for school task). If you really must, this was I want to try in one of my projects: https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

Designed all of these parts* using Deadsy/SDFX, it was certainly interesting and I enjoyed working with it, getting visual artifacts off my model and keeping file sizes down is a bit tedious though.

I wrote this (in golang) to satisfy my need to generate STLs for 3d printing.

https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

In general I like to write code to define objects, but there are some situations where a graphical editing UI would be nice. ie- Curve and polygon design.

You can sort of imagine a hybrid approach where you could crack open a mini editor to design a curve and then use it to generate code (table of numbers) which you could then extrude/sweep/loft or whatever.

github source

Nice to see sdfx [1] there, this project is impressive.

deadsy built some rather sophisticated models, be sure to check out the renderings in the github README!

https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

Code: https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

I had a similar question, and this is how I answered it (after a visit to openscad,,,) https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx

Guile/Scheme: https://libfive.com/

You probably have already seen this, but I would take a look at libfive for inspiration

https://libfive.com/

You can find a few algorithms online (such as csg.js and libfive), but most of them are either not robust or fast enough for real-time graphics.

No; Bauble doesn't know how to "rasterize" SDFs into meshes; it only knows how to raymarch them. It's theoretically possible, but it's a pretty complex problem that would take me much too long to figure out and implement. So Bauble is relegated to just making pretty pictures for now. If you want to produce meshes using SDFs, check out https://libfive.com/

This is a mid-point in Matt Keeter's research.

Start at:

http://mattkeeter.com/research/thesis.pdf

then see:

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/kokopelli/

then Antimony (see the article at: http://hackaday.com/2015/05/29/otherworldy-cad-software-hail... ), then the current effort:

https://github.com/libfive/libfive

(and also see: https://www.gitlab.com/kavalogic-inc/tovero "a binding of Libfive to Common Lisp, including a standalone REPL-based viewer"[https://github.com/Irev-Dev/curated-code-cad] can be integrated with https://www.gitlab.com/kavalogic-inc/clive

Currently I'm using OpenSCAD (w/ BlockSCAD as a front-end: https://www.blockscad3d.com because I prefer a sort of visual representation), but have been stymied by the lack of file I/O (I want to write out G-code).

Still looking for a 3D modeling tool which is:

- a node or block editor