Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

What we know

LuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a * b`). It ships with a CLI and a desktop app, including a preview area and a text editor.

The impact

I've always been a big fan of OpenSCAD, but the SCAD language itself is unfortunately quite cobbled-together and is a very poorly designed programming language. LuaCAD takes all the good parts of OpenSCAD and combines them with one of the best scripting languages.

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It has now completely replaced OpenSCAD for me, and I think it provides a better experience than OpenSCAD for all use cases

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