On: Blender 2.83 LTS

[underdown]

Not trying to disagree with your point, but the company I work for built a design tool on top of blender that feeds custom designs to our automated mill. The customer gets a high quality 3d render to approve before materials are cut & packaged. It seems to work well. Maybe we are an edge case.

[justinclift → underdown]

Are the items being cut all in planar sheets rather than organic surfaces?

eg things like a box, or IKEA furniture, assembled from flat sheets after being cut out.

Am kind of thinking Blender's lack of "proper" geometry might not matter much for that scenario.

Not really sure how it could be worked around well for more complex geometry though. :)

[underdown → justinclift]

Yes sir