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Designing 3D stuff in OpenSCAD is fun, but also difficult to wrap my head around visualising numbers. Reminds me of my game programming days, fun but I am too slow to be professional. 😅

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Also, I am very very happy with having an AI assistant to help me with this... I can just give it the code I hardly understand and it makes sense of it for me, refactors it to a module... :D And now I finally understand it a bit more!

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@maruno I haven't seen anyone doing stuff professionally in openscad, but I have done 3D-Printable stuff with it in the past. It is very slow.

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@NafiTheBear Yeah, I'm trying to make something to 3D print. How slow it is depends on what you're used to perhaps?

It's something I'm learning brand new and this seemed easier than whatever alien environment FreeCAD is to me, at least as a programmer.

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@maruno you are right it is very much better than FreeCAD and is very cool as a programmer (I'm one myself). one of my brothers does CAD design for a living and is very slow with OpenSCAD though.

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@NafiTheBear Fair enough, yeah I don't think people would code CAD professionally and people doing CAD probably are better at starting from a drawn base etc. :)

I'm just confronting myself with how bad I am visualising numbers from code to 3D with OpenSCAD. I spent quite some time just staring at the code and comprehending what I did is right and failing a lot. I get there in the end, but it takes time.

It was similar for me with game programming, I even finished my study on that with the highest possible grade but also with a study delay of a year. :P I never did anything with it again after I got my diploma, hopefully I won't drop this hobby like that.

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@maruno that's my exact experience too... like me designing parts is all geometry but this is if possible *too* much geometry. still a fun excersise tho
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