CADquery: Yet another detour on the information superhighway

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

or something.

Currently looking into CADquery which is a jquery-inspired system for doing parametric design — since I first came across it has made some notable strides:

• FreeCAD workbench: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/CadQuery_Workbench
• graphical user interface: https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor
• back-end changed to PythonOCC and OpenCascade: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which gets one support for NURBS/splines

and researching that led me to a subreddit on parametric design which in turn led to one on procedural grammars which led to one on L-systems:

L-system

see:

https://ehrenjn.github.io/LSystems/

[Julien (Julien (Carbide 3D))]

Reading “L-system”, I just had a flashback of the 90’s when fractals were used everywhere in computer graphics

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Since I wrote the above, the recommended editor has become a workbench in FreeCAD — this is easily installed via the Tools | Addon Manager.