Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

3 comments

• manny_rat 57 minutes ago
  Love it! OpenSCAD has very painful syntax. Is it possible to easily do bevels/chamfers or does it have the same limitations as OpenSCAD there?
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  • adius 21 minutes ago
    Thanks! It natively supports all BOSL2 functions which include a chamfer argument (https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL/wiki#common-arguments). So that makes it quite straightforward to add chamfers to everything!
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    • addaon 17 minutes ago
      Which is what separates us from the animals.
• WillAdams 58 minutes ago
  Is it able to access the file system and write/read files?

  I've been doing that via PythonSCAD for my current project https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview and it might be interesting to do a re-write in another language.

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  • adius 25 minutes ago
    Yes, it executes in a full fledged Lua environment. So you can do all the things you expect do be able to do with Lua!

    I’d pick Lua over Python any day, but maybe that’s just me. ;-)
• tolugenius 1 hour ago
  Really interesting! I actually use freecad so I'm use to that layer of the process but I'll check this out. Also good to see the work being done in modeling software these days