I apologize that this doesn’t actually offer much to the ongoing FreeCAD discussion, but felt this was still worth sharing:
I wouldn’t say Orders of Magnitude faster, but the BOSL2 library makes a LOT of things easier in OpenSCAD and really changes the paradigm in my honest opinion.
There is also the dotSCAD Library which I have yet to actually try out, but is meant to make the math/algos around more organic shapes easier. Not sure how well it’ll play with BOSL2 though.
This took me absolutely ages with openScad:
You can check it out here:
I have a notebook chock full of trigonometry after this. I went to openScad because I liked being able to define models as code but when it starts getting complicated its silly. I stop/started the project several times and burned out on the code, but eventually got it finished enough to print out and install. Pleased with it in the end.
I have since switched back again fully to freeCad where Ive been doing my K4:
