YASCAD - Yet Another SCAD

This project is very heavily work-in-progress!

YASCAD is a 3D modelling language heavily inspired by OpenSCAD.

YASCAD's primary concept over OpenSCAD is that geometry is first-class. You can inspect the properties of geometry you've already drawn, which leds you draw or manipulate other geometry relative to the rest of your model.

Goals

• Create advanced models without needing to break out variables extensively.
• Focus primarily on creating productive, 3D-printable models.
• Be very familiar to users who are already proficient with OpenSCAD.

Non-Goals

• 100% compatibility with OpenSCAD. Design decisions which make sense for YASCAD take precedence over maintaining compatibility or familiarity with OpenSCAD.
• Being a general-purpose programming language. This is for models only.
• Constraint solving between geometry. Execution should remain procedural/functional, otherwise this becomes too confusing.

Usage

This needs a recent nightly Rust. No crates are currently available, so check out the repo.

There are two executable entry points:

• bin/yascad, a CLI for building models
• gui, a web-based graphical editor

In addition to these, there are two notable libraries:

• lang contains language front-end/back-end crates
• wasm is a simplified WebAssembly binding for the language libraries
  • Build with wasm-pack build --target bundler
  • Or, automatically built by gui