difference between PicoGK and microcad.xyz

[busssard]

i am starting with programmatic CAD and i was wondering if someone can explain the differences between PicoGK and Microcad.xyz
(besides that one is in C# and the other in rust)

i am talking about their capabilities, as i want to obviously not learn a broken tool

[joshmelnykcroft]

I had brief look at microcad.xyz, looks like a fun project! Based on how they came up with the idea, it looks like a spiritual successor to OpenSCAD, but written in rust.
The big thing that sets picoGK apart is that it is voxel based rather than vector based. This allows you to do things like offsets and boolean operations that would normally fail in vector based tools like OpenSCAD or microcad.xyz. it might be easier to do certain things in microcad, but if you're trying to do really complex parametric stuff, I'd stick with picoGK.
Hope that helps!

[LinKayser]

Josh wrote most of what I would say. PicoGK was specifically written to overcome the fragility of vector-based CAD.

I wrote a series of articles a while back, and here is the part that deals with Voxels vs Vectors.

And a section of my book Coding for Engineers, which talks a bit about it.

Lin