cadquery

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2021–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with cadquery, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

State tracking is crazy hard, so the commenter could not work out how to use it2024-09-15
Hard to install v2 and structure code into importable modules2022-02-06
Selecting faces and edges on complex shapes is a nightmare with its selector DSL2022-02-06
Distributed only through Anaconda, breaking existing Python library setups2022-02-04
Dot-chaining syntax is awkward for nesting commands2021-10-21
Selecting faces and edges is a nightmare, selectors very hard on complex shapes2021-10-21
Must install and understand Anaconda and build tooling before even trying the software2021-10-18
Brittle; complex parts are hard work and fail with weird errors2021-10-18
Workplane model is frustrating; reusing small geometries needs knowing the plane ahead of time2021-04-26