PicoGK is a compact and robust geometry kernel for Computational Engineering

• PicoGK

  5 357 8.6 C#

  PicoGK is a compact and robust geometry kernel for Computational Engineering

  Indeed, which is why I suggested an eDSL rather than a full-blown DSL. C# is decent at embedding domain-specific languages (fluent APIs are simple eDSLs and are fairly common). You can see the need even from their simple examples:

  https://github.com/leap71/PicoGK/blob/main/Examples/Ex_Boole...

  Although I just noticed that they also support defining objects via implicit functions, so that's neat:

  https://github.com/leap71/PicoGK/blob/main/Examples/Ex_Impli...

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• manifold

  20 1,093 9.4 C++

  Geometry library for topological robustness (by elalish)

  Small in a relative sense compared to some larger codebase.

  Here's a bit on Manifold:

  https://github.com/elalish/manifold/wiki/Manifold-Library

  and the author's blog is interesting:

  https://elalish.blogspot.com/search/label/Manifold

• LEAP71_HelixHeatX

  1 19 4.3 C#

  A helical heat exchanger built on the LEAP 71 Shape Kernel and PicoGK

• LEAP71_RoverWheel

  1 9 5.1 C#

  A library to create rover-wheel-like objects with several layers of structures

• OpenVDB

  56 2,795 9.4 C++

  OpenVDB - Sparse volume data structure and tools

  

  In the README there is a section title "On the shoulders of giants" that probably points to the main reason. This project is a layer overtop https://www.openvdb.org/

• libfive

  26 1,472 4.5 C++

  Infrastructure for solid modeling

  

• gcodepreview

  54 30 8.2 TeX

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

  While I certainly appreciate the virtues of a Domain Specific Language, and that OpenSCAD has been wildly successful because of its limitations, the limitations are downright infuriating at times.

  An interesting potential alternative (which hopefully won't result in a fork) is adding Python:

  https://pythonscad.org/

  which I've had some success with:

  https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

  ImplicitCAD is interesting --- and the (new?) ability to open files from GitHub is _amazing_ (OpenSCAD recently gained that same facility, _and_ it supports the customizer: https://seasick.github.io/openscad-web-gui/?https://raw.gith... ), but it's a heavy lift given the need to work out how to edit files, preview them, and so forth.

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