Hello Brecht,

This is interesting, in that it's the first I've heard of there being an OpenSCAD package for Haskell 😯.

I've been doing a fair bit of OpenSCAD design recently, and have frequently felt it would be nice express these constructs in Haskell or similar more fully featured functional source language.  A previous search uncovered Haskell CSG packages, but I didn't see anything suitable for generating 3D printing files.  (A search just now discovered https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mecha, which also offers OpenSCAD output.)

I understand that one of the problems with OpenSCAD as a target language is that it only exports to STL files, with no primitive recognition of curved entities.  I believe there are other 3D model representations (OBJ, 3MF?) that have primitives for curved elements, which in turn can be handled more smoothly by GCode generation software.

(For non-3D printing folks reading this: GCode being the low level "machine" code that drives most personal 3D printers).

Anyway, I've tagged your fork of OpenCSG and will aim to try it out sometime 😀.   Thanks!

#g


On 16/03/2023 21:42, Brecht Serckx wrote:
Hi all,

I would like to take over the OpenSCAD[1] package, of which I believe the maintainer is no longer active.
The maintainer hasn't replied to my ticket[2] on the issue tracker or to an email to the listed email-address for over a year.
On my fork[3] I have implemented multiple bugfixes and features already, and I have some ideas for future improvements.

Best regards,

Brecht

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenSCAD
[2] https://chiselapp.com/user/mwm/repository/OpenSCAD/tktview?name=73c74f477b
[3] https://github.com/BrechtSerckx/OpenSCAD

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