[Cad] [Open Manufacturing] Re: Which CAD Kernel Should the FOSS and OSHW Communities Focus On?

[Nancy Ouyang]

I program and I CAD.
Very few people seem to argue for text-based circuit-board design, and I
only know of one person who designs circuits that way.
I don't follow that in 3D things are more amenable to programmatic design.
It's certainly possible, but I don't feel that not having a GUI should be a
goal.

Very interested to hear more about the CAD kernels.

Thanks,
--Nancy

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Matt Carney <mcarney at media.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> As an example/challenge: please find me an example of a scripted machine
>> that's more complicated than some laser cut 2D parts, or static 3d printed
>> object.
>>
>
> Just off the top of my head...
>
> robotic arm:
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:65081
>
> https://thingiverse-production-new.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/32/38/e4/5a/93/RoboArm.scad
>
> automatic transmission:
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34778
> http://www.thingiverse.com/download:100324
>
> 5-cylinder radial engine (single part?)
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:54404/#files
>
> rover (although this looks mostly 3d printed?):
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10057/#files
>
> There are also many OpenSCAD versions of reprap on github, although I
> don't know which one is relatively recent, last I looked there were some
> good openscad scripts for prusa reprap but surely that's legacy tech by now.
>
> Also, I think that AutoCAD's autolisp used to be popular back in the day.
> It was my understanding that many complex machines were specified with
> piles of lisp scripts? These days I would expect the equivalent to be VBA I
> guess, since nobody knows lisp in the modern office.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>
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