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The beauty of OpenSCAD never ceases to amaze me .. minkowski as a built-in?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Transforma...

Wow, its just so .. elegant ..

Maybe, but it of limited use for most CAD problems - "standard" visual sketch-and-extrude systems are MUCH easier to use for 99% of things you'd want to model.

Exceptions are highly repetitive and mathematical objects like gears, CNC art, fasteners and so on.

OpenSCAD is pretty good for programmers transitioning into 3D modeling. The minkowski can get slow for high triangle counts, so it's not used too often. But it's as a result of relying on the underlying 3D graphics library, CGAL.

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