10 ways to get the best out of OpenSCAD

• BOSL2

  36 780 9.6 OpenSCAD

  The Belfry OpenScad Library, v2.0. An OpenSCAD library of shapes, masks, and manipulators to make working with OpenSCAD easier. BETA

  

Before I ran into insurmountable (for me) performance issues with OpenSCAD, I made heavy use of BOSL2[0]. I’d go as far as call it OpenSCAD’s missing standard library. It’s truly sublime.

Fun fact: BOSL2 was written by the same person who made the world’s most 3D printable 3D printer. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL2

[1]: https://github.com/revarbat/snappy-reprap

• snappy-reprap

  3 487 0.0 OpenSCAD

  The world's most 3D printable 3D printer. (Guinness Book of World Records 2017 & 2018)

Before I ran into insurmountable (for me) performance issues with OpenSCAD, I made heavy use of BOSL2[0]. I’d go as far as call it OpenSCAD’s missing standard library. It’s truly sublime.

Fun fact: BOSL2 was written by the same person who made the world’s most 3D printable 3D printer. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL2

[1]: https://github.com/revarbat/snappy-reprap

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Round-Anything

  13 440 1.5 OpenSCAD

  A set of OpenSCAD utilities for adding radii and fillets, that embodies a robust approach to developing OpenSCAD parts.

• sdf

  18 1,488 0.0 Python

  Simple SDF mesh generation in Python

Try out fogleman/sdf[1]. It is like OpenSCAD in many ways but the distance field model gives you offsets and fillets more easily.

[1] https://github.com/fogleman/sdf

• cadquery

  30 2,827 8.3 Python

  A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT

  

The link to the GitHub issue is referring to the old archived repository. This should be the link to the most recent discussion: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/issues/371

• OpenJSCAD.org

  12 2,533 5.9 JavaScript

  JSCAD is an open source set of modular, browser and command line tools for creating parametric 2D and 3D designs with JavaScript code. It provides a quick, precise and reproducible method for generating 3D models, and is especially useful for 3D printing applications.

  

No one has mentioned OpenJSCAD, which is the same idea in Javascript: http://openjscad.azurewebsites.net/

https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/tree/V2

A fairly substantial rewrite is underway, the V2 branch linked above.

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