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On 06/25/2013 04:23 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> On 06/23/2013 06:51 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> STEP, hands down.
>> It is reasonable feature complete. It is. . . . .. . .
>> Only downside is, that STEP is a behemoth of a format. About the
>> extreme opposite of the PCB format;-)   Some time back I hade a
>> cursory glance at how it does basic 3Dgeometry. Afterwards, I knew,
>> why kicad or eagle developers chose VRML for their 3D ambitions.
>
> What about this:
>
> http://stepcode.org/mw/index.php?title=How_to_use_STEPcode_in_an_application 
>
>
> meanwhile, back to studying openscad again.
>
implicitCAD http://www.implicitcad.org/ is also worth a look. Nearly 
syntax-compatible with openscad, but more purely declarative.  I've 
successfully printed parts from implicitCAD on my makerbot.  Docs are 
still a bit sketchy.

-dave