OpenSCAD does the rendering, exporting, and other functions.
#Openscad for code
Instead, I turned to a project that uses C++ code to generate OpenSCAD output, OOML (the Object Oriented Mechanics Language)). I thought about using the OpenCSG library that OpenSCAD uses, but that exposes a lot of detail. Sure, it has objects and some other features, but I’m more comfortable with C++. However, JavaScript is a bit of a scripting language itself.
It is more or less OpenSCAD for JavaScript. So why learn something new? A real programming language is likely to have features you won’t find readily in OpenSCAD that, in theory, ought to help with reuse and managing complex designs. It is a good bet that most Hackaday readers can program in at least one language. If you’ve used OpenSCAD you know that it is like a simple programming language, but with some significant differences from what you normally use. Some CAD tools let you do both, but many 3D printer users wind up using OpenSCAD which is fully parametric.
You think you want to draw things graphically, but once you start doing complex things and making changes, parametric modeling is the way to go. 3D design is much the same for a lot of people. If you’ve ever tried to build furniture or a toy with one of those instructions sheets that contains nothing but pictures, you might disagree. There’s an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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