Having one parameter based off another, based off another in a long chain is bad practice and is prone to unintended consequences downstream of anything you change. And I know you can change...
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Having one parameter based off another, based off another in a long chain is bad practice and is prone to unintended consequences downstream of anything you change. And I know you can change...
You're quite unfairly singling out openscad. It's a different kind of modeler, it's script based not gui based. Sure it won't transfer directly to gui based modeling, but things like knowing how to...
Cougar, you're describing a typical GUI parametric CAD software. Fusion 360, Solidworks, Designspark Mechanical and Solvespace all do this. The drag and drop, stretch and so on is the G (graphical)...
I don't recommend using a global $fn, 100 faces may be too much for a small circle and not enough for a big one. $fs and $fa scale much better. $fs sets the maximum length of a segment before it...
I'll throw something else into the mix, not that I don't love OpenSCAD (I very much do, and it's the only software I can get myself to model anything in to be honest. I've tried every GUI based...