Yeah, that's why I was willing to pay for a book.

That's an interesting approach, and I'll definitely keep it in mind --- maybe 26.3 will finally be the version where I learn FreeCAD.

I will note that I was moderately successful w/ Dune 3D on the basis of its quite nice textual documentation:

https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/simple-part.html