[wiw2]

Thankfully I have been able to do what I want to do without learning the complexity that comes with Build123d etc.

Perhaps someday, but I havent had the need to get there thus far.

Also: Encapsulation etc was achievable with Python, which is something I already know. PythonSCAD checked all the boxes for me without the learning curve.

[photonthug]

Another option in this space is using python to directly generate openscad code, which is a fun exercise to sort of quickly visualize simple recursive algorithms in a 3d world and play with tilings, space filling curves, etc. of course building what amounts to a transpiler will be fun for some, or a distraction, depending on how focused you want to be on the 3d part.

But openscad is a cool and minimal instruction set for such experiments, and doing this in a language with better meta programming support would be even more fun.

[WillAdams]

That is such a popular thing that back when I was maintaining the Shapeoko wiki there was a separate section for that sort of thing and it was hard to keep up:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211123185332/https://wiki.shap...

I really hope that OpenPythonSCAD becomes standard and that it can harness all that energy and creativity --- in particular note that it is now possible to upload a design for sharing using it.