[Cad] Which CAD Kernel Should the FOSS and OSHW Communities Focus On?

[Daniel Taub]

This is a great conversation. I don't have anything to add for the
question at hand except that I prefer hybrid textual-graphical design
tools. For example, I love Rhino.

FWIW, I'm currently employed by Autodesk writing web-based CAD software for
both physical and electrical design via direct-manipulation/GUI --
"Project Wire" -- http://www.voxel8.co/software/

At one point, we also had some scripting for simple electrical
features like solenoids and interleaved fingers for buttons, but that
was lost in the most recent iteration.

In my personal projects, I prefer OpenSCAD, so I am also very curious about
scripting for design, both electrical and mechanical.