[OpenSCAD] PyOpenSCAD - Demand, priorities?

[Elmo]

Very much interested in both approaches.

The "canonical" fork of MCAD is under my account (elmom/MCAD) on github. 
Evan, great that you've fleshed out the code. If you want, I'll accept 
any sane pull requests. I'll definitely use the code, and maybe do some 
work on the syntax/API to add the possibility to use it in a way more 
similar to the original (superficially functional) OpenScad syntax.


Elmo, MCAD maintainer

On 02/13/2011 04:25 AM, I.T. Daniher wrote:
> Hey Evan,
>
> A friend and I have been working on a different approach to the same end
> in a project called pySCAD. We have alpha-level code up on github here:
> https://github.com/kevinmehall/pyscad.
>
> The basic idea is that we're using ctypes to directly modify the
> abstract syntax tree of OpenSCAD, allowing full python integration at a
> fairly low-level.
>
> The Readme contains a fairly in-depth discussion of our approach,
> progress, and plans.
>
> Is your code publicly available?
>
> Best,
> --
> Ian
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 17:35, Evan T. Jones <evan_t_jones at mac.com
> <mailto:evan_t_jones at mac.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all -
>             I saw some talk yesterday about a Python => OpenSCAD
>       interface.  I've been working on a fairly complete bridge that I'm
>     preparing to make public in the next week, and I'd like to gauge
>     people's interest.  I'm really excited about combining the
>     advantages of a general-purpose language ( library availability;
>     fully flexible list operations; classes and built-in data
>     structures) with the awesome geometric work the OpenSCAD authors
>     have already done.
>
>     I've expanded on Phillip Tiefenbacher's openscad.py module ( as at:
>     http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1481) to include all other OpenSCAD
>     commands, including importing and calling OpenSCAD libraries from
>     your Python code.
>
>     I've got a couple questions for people, so I can set my priorities:
>
>     -- Anybody interested? How attached are people to the OpenSCAD
>     language itself vs. the awesome 3D results?
>     -- Separate project or just fork MCAD?  Any ideas about which fork
>     is most 'canonical' right now?
>     -- How important would integration with the OpenSCAD IDE be?  I set
>     'Automatically reload and compile' to checked, then whenever I
>     compile my python ( 'pyopenscad.render_to_file( some_file.scad)' )
>     it automatically gets evaluated.  But it's less direct than I might
>     like.
>     -- Do people prefer to work in the OpenSCAD IDE, or use separate
>     editors?
>     -- Any Windows or Linux people interested in doing some editor ->
>     OpenSCAD communication? I'm working on some Applescript code so you
>     could use a single command to compile Python to OpenSCAD and then
>     render the compiled code, but I don't know enough about inter-app
>     communication on non-Apple OSes to make that happen.
>
>     TL;DNR:  I'm gonna release a Python => OpenSCAD bridge.  Anybody
>     interested?
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Evan
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