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Comment by amelius | original | OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
[−]amelius · 2026-10-10 Sat 22:52 UTC · link
What is wrong with OpenCascade? Why not use that?
[−]YuechenLi · 2026-10-11 Sun 04:36 UTC · link
OpenCascade is an almost 30 year old C++ codebase that's known for being notoriously difficult to integrate.

The bigger issue is that OpenCascade is error tolerant to a fault, which allows it to import a lot more legacy geometries, but it also means that it silently exports a lot more bad geometries much more often than commercial kernels

So, there's a reason why commercial solutions don't really use OpenCascade over ACIS/Parasolid for authoring.