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please, code first cad is not the way to go ! Did you ever use a CAD software for a proper project ? The hard stuff is in the UX/UI… or just put a DSL over CGAL and dall ir a day.

I love Rust, I love code first approach, I like this project, but the average guy trying to put a threaded hole onto an extruded profile will hardly code it…

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There are no good libraries to build open source CAD on top of really. CGAL doesn't support fillets or chamfers, and you'd really want a geometric constraint solver. I think building code first is a good first step.

Code-first CAD is the way to go for some users and some use cases. I personally won't make any stronger claim than that, nor will I accept any sweeping claims to the opposite.

The average guy can keep doing what they're doing. Fornjot will not take GUI-based CAD away from them.

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