Show HN: Dslcad a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models

• pov2mesh

  3 26 10.0 POV-Ray SDL

  initial release

The link [0] literally says:

> #pov2mesh A Set of Macros in POV-Ray Language to Convert a POV-Ray to a Triangle Mesh

I never said it was a mesh editor or CAD tool or anything else except that it would need an internal representation of volumes and surfaces in a scene, and that the OP linked to a tool that generated a triangle mesh from this info.

[0] https://github.com/cyborg5/pov2mesh

• dslcad

  7 456 9.0 Rust

  DSLCad is a programming language & interpreter for building 3D models.

DieselCAD = DSLCAD = the very subject of this disussion. :)

https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad

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• fornjot

  35 1,878 10.0 Rust

  Early-stage b-rep CAD kernel, written in the Rust programming language.

E.g. Rhai[2] or Lua or whatever.

And I guess if their tech is solid enough, someone will do that eventually and open a PR or fork the project. They do not use an existing geomtry kernel but do everything from scratch which makes this a very interesting endeavour.

There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD

[1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot

[2] https://rhai.rs/

• ShapeScript

  9 382 8.9 Swift

  The ShapeScript 3D modeling app for macOS and iOS

• egui

  203 19,719 9.8 Rust

  egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

> No editor included I see, that tripped me up for a second but it's IMO better than wasting your time on including one [...]

It's using egui for the UI so adding an editor (w. syntax highlighting for the custom language) should be very easy[1].

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui/blob/530e9f667c0969b09edb68f77...

• CascadeStudio

  18 958 0.0 JavaScript

  A Full Live-Scripted CAD Kernel in the Browser

If you haven't seen it you may want to check out https://github.com/zalo/CascadeStudio

From what I see, it is exposing the OpenCascade base commands directly, versus your completely new DSL, but you might be interested in a way to implement your DSL on top of such an interface such as this which takes out a lot of the extra work of having a rendering interface, exports, etc, maybe.

• MarksEnclosureHelper

  3 67 0.0 OpenSCAD

  OpenSCAD Hinged Box generator and toolkit

there should be a support group. "Show me where OpenSCAD hurt you".

I wrote this: https://github.com/sbambach/MarksEnclosureHelper

I share your pain

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• gcodepreview

  25 11 7.8 OpenSCAD

  OpenSCAD library for moving a tool in lines and arcs so as to model how a part would be cut using G-Code.

Would writing out text files be an option?

I've been trying to do this from OpenSCAD (now using RapCAD) and while I sort of have it working:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

I'm not so far along that I wouldn't try something else.

Suggest a related project