Comment by jmpman

I never learned Solidworks or any other "proper" CAD packages and have always hacked my way to success with OpenSCAD. Fundamentally there are tons of shortcomings, but where it's recently become a joy is with AI. I can have Claude design something in OpenSCAD, and then I'll copy and paste it over to OpenAI, asking for it to review. A few back and forth cycles and the resulting output is surprisingly solid. If there's something I don't like, I'll just make a few edits, and send it back to the AI to parameterize (and critique). Once I have a good first draft on OpenSCAD, I'd like the AIs to then convert it to a true CAD package to productionalize... haven't achieved that yet.