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A long time ago I read that CadQuery has a fundamentally more powerful geometry kernel than OpenSCAD, so I dropped any attempt to try OpenSCAD.

Years later, I never actually got the hang of CadQuery, and I'm wondering if it was a mistake to write off OpenSCAD.

I am pretty new to CAD, so I don't actually know when I would run into OpenSCAD's limitations.

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The notable limitations for OpenSCAD are:

- functional programming model --- some folks find not having traditionally mutable variables limiting

- output is as an STL, or DXF using polylines

- native objects are spheres, cylinders, cubes, with functions for hull and Minkowski, so filleting and other traditional CAD operations can be difficult

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