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Improve FreeCAD - OpenSCAD interaction #62

Closed KeithSloan closed 1 year ago

KeithSloan commented 2 years ago

Outline

FreeCAD 0.20 improved the addElement facility of the OpenSCAD workbench however this could still be improved further

Details

The addElement is basically an editor for OpenSCAD script with the option to have output to FreeCAD document and and report any errors in a window.

Research ideas on improving direct interaction with OpenSCAD from FreeCAD

With

@chennes
@KeithSloan52

Own ideas

Decide on plan
Implement new facility for FreeCAD / OpenSCAD interaction.

Expected Outcome

New facility in FreeCAD to edit OpenSCAD scripts and have their output create FreeCAD objects in the current document

Future Possibilities

Project Properties

Skills

Qt
Python
OpenSCAD scripting

Difficulty

Medium

Additional Information

Potential mentor(s): [Keith Sloan]
Organization website: https://freecadweb.org/
Communication channels: https://forum.freecadweb.org) slack

brlcad commented 1 year ago

FreeCAD is now participating as their own GSoC org