Household Laser Cuts
A hobbyist shares their experience transitioning from a proprietary cloud-based CAD tool to OpenSCAD for laser-cutting projects. The author emphasizes the importance of open-source software for long-term ownership of parametric designs.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing trend of 'maker' culture and the preference for libre software in DIY engineering to avoid vendor lock-in.
After making my keyboard holders I did some other laser-cutting projets. Here's a bit of that journey.
I designed the gen1 holders using Cuttle . This was a great way to start with laser cutting and parametric CAD: being able to switch between "move control points around" and "write logic in the node tree" helped me build up intuitions about how the piece is made. I wound up getting a Pro subscription for a couple months, and was happy with the value I got.
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