anjowo

I was having a lot of problems with CPU usage on my Drupal base website, so I wrote some Python scripts to track and display the latency over time. The source is on Github.

Oh man, I should have known better. You are right.

I wasn't thinking of it in that way, when I wrote the title, I was thinking of the second "design" as "the thing", and the "CAD" part of it as the name of the technology area. The more I think about it, the more I think it is a little awkwardly titled.

The stable version of OpenSCAD has seemed to work well enough. I ran into some problems when I tried to use a nightly version to get some of the latest features. I don't think anything about the overall process really ties to it OpenSCAD itself, there are many other parametric script-based modelers. It just happened to be the one I used. It would mean reworking some things, but I could switch to a different one if I needed to.

That is one of the difficulties. In a few of the more difficult calculations, I did what I could on the python side of things, and emitted a statement or function in the generated openscad files.