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Your own 3D parametric modeler.
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.
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Note that attaching subsequent operations to generated geometry like this (faces made by pads, etc.) will make the model extremely fragile and making basically any change upstream from that will break it every time.
This may or may not improve with the upcoming 1.0 release where the topological naming bug is "fixed," but I'm not counting on it until I see it for myself.
FYI for anyone else stumbling on this in the future, you cannot at present pad-to-face in more than one direction at a time, i.e. the "symmetrical" option you can use with a normal pad is not present. Also, you can't pad-to-face onto any surface that is not geometrically flat; curved surfaces or even intersecting with two faces with an angle in between them will not work.
Thanks for these tips and provisos - they are true and important. ... How would you do the divider?
In this case as a loft. Not say that's necessarily the right way to do it, but that's how I'd do it. See my other comment on the matter here.