Coding 3D parts in Python using FreeCAD
For quite a long time I have been a happy user of OpenSCAD software, mostly for designing 3D printed parts. For a recent project, I needed to create a complex geometry, and my starting point was a data file, so it made a lot of sense to that with a program. Having been using OpenSCAD for a long time, I got the job done with it but creating the STL file took more than 10 hours. I could live with that, but I was not looking for an STL file as an output but a STEP or BREP file instead. So I started reviewing what I could do in Python using FreeCAD. It turned out that I could do a lot, but it was not as easy as using OpenSCAD. And it was not very fast either, but I could get it working in the end. The code below is what I used to create the model of the image of the cube, but for reasons unknown, all the shapes are hidden (not visible) when I open the file with FreeSCAD. It is very simple but, although there is a lot of documentation out there, I did not find all of it when I was looking