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		kragen on March 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line I think AutoCAD has been this way for a long time too. The first version I used was 2.14K+ADE; you could invoke any operation from the keyboard (and often had to) but I don't remember if selecting from menus with the mouse would generate the CLI command. In later versions of AutoCAD it did.

donaldihunter on March 6, 2020 [–]

Yep, automating CSG, transforms etc. from the command line in AutoCAD was very powerful. I fondly remember a Stonehenge 3D model project from school.

kragen on March 6, 2020 | [–]

I don't think it was possible to automate anything in 2.14K+ADE (that was before AutoLISP), and its 3-D support was almost nil, let alone CSG.

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