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Neat!

Looking forward to seeing OpenSCAD and STL diffs together on the same page - that'd be a powerful OpenSCAD learning tool as well as a good change-management / collaboration tool.

Definitely cool to see where this goes - I've been wanting "GitHub + Thingiverse" for a while.



Do you mean OpenSCAD and STL diffs side by side, and live edited, so when you change the code, you see the model change?


That'd be most powerful as a learning tool (and a sweet "oh wow!" demo).

However, just a GitHub-style +/- diff view on the OpenSCAD files next to the STL diff view would be awesome (basically like the GitHub commit-range/pull-request "files" view, but with STL support).


Yes, I agree. I'll have to find space to fit it, but it makes sense to do so.


> Do you mean OpenSCAD and STL diffs side by side, and live edited, so when you change the code, you see the model change?

Well, there's always openjscad. I don't think it was a direct port, though.


Yup, OpenJsCad has the ability to do live editing, but it tends to render a bit slow when the models are somewhat more complex. It sends work back and forth to a background worker to generate the polygons, but it still has to send it all back to the main thread.

Unfortunately, OpenJsCad doesn't seem to have a high rate of adoption among 3D printing modelers...at least not yet.




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