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

[Bryan Bishop]

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/
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