It's kind of interesting to me that at least one other notably talented programmer, Glenn Reid, formerly of Adobe and author of "The Green Book" and developer of Touchtype.app and PasteUp.app chose to move on to building furniture by hand.
By way of contrast, I've been trying to puzzle out how to do woodworking programmatically which has been an interesting exercise, since traditional CAD/CAM is quite limited in its assumptions, and the tools which are accessible to me (in terms of them matching how I think/work and having an immediate, applicable preview): BlockSCAD and OpenSCAD are rather limited in their ability to export files (DXF, SVG, STL) --- in particular, I'd like the ability to write out a text file w/ full control over the contents, but that's not viewed as a valid request by the devs.
By way of contrast, I've been trying to puzzle out how to do woodworking programmatically which has been an interesting exercise, since traditional CAD/CAM is quite limited in its assumptions, and the tools which are accessible to me (in terms of them matching how I think/work and having an immediate, applicable preview): BlockSCAD and OpenSCAD are rather limited in their ability to export files (DXF, SVG, STL) --- in particular, I'd like the ability to write out a text file w/ full control over the contents, but that's not viewed as a valid request by the devs.
Making progress though:
- http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf - https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project
I just wish it were easier to make G-Code in 3D (unfortunately, I don't find the obvious tool at tplang.org very workable with my approaches).