<div dir="ltr"><div>I program and I CAD. <br></div>Very few people seem to argue for text-based circuit-board design, and I only know of one person who designs circuits that way.<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Very interested to hear more about the CAD kernels.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>--Nancy<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Bishop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com" target="_blank">kanzure@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Matt Carney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcarney@media.mit.edu" target="_blank">mcarney@media.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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. <br></div><div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">Just off the top of my head...</div><br>robotic arm:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:65081" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:65081</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://thingiverse-production-new.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/32/38/e4/5a/93/RoboArm.scad" target="_blank">https://thingiverse-production-new.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/32/38/e4/5a/93/RoboArm.scad</a><br><br>automatic transmission:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34778" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34778</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/download:100324" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/download:100324</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">5-cylinder radial engine (single part?)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:54404/#files" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:54404/#files</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">rover (although this looks mostly 3d printed?):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10057/#files" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10057/#files</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div><span><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div>- Bryan<br><a href="http://heybryan.org/" target="_blank">http://heybryan.org/</a><br><a href="tel:1%20512%20203%200507" value="+15122030507" target="_blank">1 512 203 0507</a></div>
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