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I have been a happy user of OpenSCAD for a while, and I've gotten to appreciate the fact that you can set and review measurements easily, keep track of versions, modify files programmatically.

Now I am in the process of switching some workflows to Blender, as rendering capabilities in OpenSCAD are limited, and would like to have the best of both worlds.

I have explored OpenSCAD importers, but they go through the STL export in OpenSCAD, so everything comes out as a single block.

I've also looked at BlendSCAD which looks interesting, but a bit raw around the edges, especially to one that isn't very familiar with Python yet.

So the question is - are there other ways to generate geometries via text input? I can totally handle everything else (colors, materials) via the UI, but for things such as rough-modeling a kitchen (mostly parallelepipeds as far as I'm concerned), I'd like to write things in a text file.

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    $\begingroup$ There isn't one that's any better than BlendSCAD. If OpenSCAD can output obj files or other similar formats that blender can input, I would suggest doing the CAD in OpenSCAD and then exporting the file in a blender readable format. You can import the result to blender and use it there. EDIT: I checked the OpenSCAD documents and it can export STL, so I would export STL files and import them into blender. $\endgroup$
    – Marty Fouts
    Jul 14, 2021 at 19:51
  • $\begingroup$ @MartyFouts - thanks, but unfortunately OpenSCAD exports everything as one single blob, no matter what, so any logical structure I built in the source goes lost (colors, for starters). I am trying BlendSCAD, but keep getting errors even running the demos: File "/home/simone/Downloads/blender-2.92.0-linux64/2.92/python/lib/python3.7/site-packages/blendscad/__init__.py", line 74, in initns import blenderscad ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'blenderscad' $\endgroup$
    – simone
    Jul 14, 2021 at 20:21
  • $\begingroup$ will this fix work for you?copypaste.guru/WhereIsMyPythonModule/… $\endgroup$
    – Marty Fouts
    Jul 14, 2021 at 20:33
  • $\begingroup$ @MartyFouts Nope - same problem. I installed blendscad both via the system pip and the blender pip but the problem is still there $\endgroup$
    – simone
    Jul 14, 2021 at 21:05

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