I went through the same issue last couple of days. I have worked hard for last few weeks or so, and finally got my RepRap Mendelmax 2.0 up and running . Now that is works (and printed 3 really nice X-mas tree ornaments), I wanted to try something of my own. I had plenty of prior experience with solidworks at work. So, I tried OpenSCAD first. It is very interesting - I am amazed at beautiful minby zvonimir - Reprappers