I'd hope that a Fusion-to-OpenSCAD tool could be open source, and could serve as a basis for other modeling tools' doing the same thing. And since many more people use modeling GUIs than code, that could expand OpenSCAD usage quite a bit.
OPENSCAD VS FUSION 360 CODE
How does it help OpenSCAD? It creates ways for people who prefer modeling GUI tools over code to create OpenSCAD content. And I can't run commercial GUI CAD modeling apps on the server. Specific to the e-NABLE project (my primary goal), the advantage would be that there are many CAD modelers that like GUI tools and are comfortable in them, for doing the sorts of modeling that's required for prosthetics (which have lots of organic shapes), and I'd like to integrate their work into an OpenSCAD/web based app for delivery. So there's an opportunity for OpenSCAD to fill a big gap in the industry, separating parametric modeling from delivery. And right now there's no standard/open way to express parametric designs, that I know of, so they're all tied to a desktop GUI app. The advantage over exporting an STL/OBJ file would be that it could be parametric. For example, Thingiverse Customizer, Youmagine, Solidoodles, etc. The scenario that's most obvious to me is that people could model in Fusion 360 (it's a nice shared authoring GUI for CAD modeling) and then export OpenSCAD script representations for rendering using OpenSCAD. The question is - is there interest on the part of some OpenSCAD developers in helping make it easy for Fusion 360 to integrate with OpenSCAD. To be clear, Fusion 360 is a proprietary commercial application, and I suspect that won't change. Some more insight on this issue is nicely addressed in this text, you may like checking out: Īs a side note: I love INSTRUCTABLES, by the way! :-D After all we're all makers/hackers/diy-minded people/etc., right? So, while a gratis tool may sound generous, it blocks us from flipping it upside down and creating whatever crazy things we want to create with it. I'm pretty sure most people here in this mailing list believe that they deserve the right to tinker with the tools they use.
OPENSCAD VS FUSION 360 FOR FREE
And the most valuable thing for free software activists is software freedom, which is exactly what offers of "gratis" licenses of proprietary software lack: they are free, but they lack freedom. I'm just stating that if companies want something from the software freedom movement, the companies must give something back as well. Unfortunatelly, the most common partnerships I've seen recently in the "maker movement" do not truly satisfy that expectation of freedom.
That is, software that respects the freedoms of the users. Actually I think it is very important to foster the free software economy by having more employed programmers producing truly-free software. I do agree that there is potential for good partnerships between free software communities and technology companies. I would in any case be interested in being in the loop - having contact with a fan in the Autodesk system cannot hurt :) I’m also doing a bunch of Javascript-based experiments with OpenSCAD these days, so I might be interested in such a project. I’m not at all familiar with Fusion 360, but I like the idea. > The next question is - are any big openSCADers who might be interested in working with the Fusion API to build a javascript->openSCAD converter? What do you think of the idea? Any suggestions? On Aug 25, 2014, at 14:22 PM, Laird Popkin wrote: But that's outside my expertise.On Mon, at 3:43 PM, Marius Kintel wrote: I have tried Onshape in the browser, but found it unusably slow, and the dimensioning tool was fairly crude compared to what I was used to in FreeCAD.īlender seems to rule, generally, for organic forms.
OPENSCAD VS FUSION 360 HOW TO
It looks like people who spend more time in FreeCAD than I do learn how to avoid the quirks. I've used FreeCAD on top of OpenSCAD designs sometimes, and FreeCAD has an OpenSCAD workbench.
If you are thinking in terms of parts and operations, FreeCAD is what you want to use of the free alternatives. But OpenSCAD models only geometry, not operations. There are other related projects like ImplicitCAD (implemented in haskell doesn't share code with OpenSCAD) and OpenJSCAD (exactly what you would likely expect from the name).įreeCAD has much richer features and traditional design, but I found it quirky and crash-prone, and sometimes the UI would get stuck and I have had to type python into the console to complete operations. For models that aren't too complex, the thingiverse customizer can make it possible to give others the ability to easily modify your parametric models. OpenSCAD is particularly useful when what you want to do is naturally expressed using constructive solid geometry, and even more so if you want to share your work.
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