It's #FreeCADFriday! Show us what you're working on this week in #FreeCAD #opensource #CAD #CAM #BIM

I've generated many #hdri environments maps and soon I will release all for free, are simple and maybe useful for product visualization and check of surfaces. #b3d #Rendering #CAD

Convert 3D meshes with Quad topology & Subdivision Surfaces to #IGES for #CAD workflows using FreeShip! Now supports OBJ & VRML2 imports.
Link to download FreeShip
https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/releases

Link to download QRemeshify add-on for quad topology generation for CAD like mesh.
https://github.com/ksami/QRemeshify
#b3d #fc3d

In recent days, I have created with #Blender several maps that can be used with #Plasticity; some of them might be included in the next beta version, and the others that are not used will be released for free. #CAD #3d #product #b3d

OpenSCAD 2021.01 now availabe on Haiku (64bit only for now).

Thanks to @joe for pointing this out and the pointer on building it for Haiku!

Thanks to @waddlesplash for poking me into looking to porting it to Haiku! :)

EDIT: after fixing CGAL for 32bit, OpenSCAD is now also available for that on Haiku.

Enjoy!

A bit of #FreeCADFriday action: reworking the sleeve for @MCQN_Ltd's RGB LED bollards so we can (a) switch the 3D printing orientation so the stress lines aren't along the printing layers and (b) it will be removable for when we want to mount the bollard on the back of a trike for another music video (or something)

Huh, making a custom servo horn wasn't all that hard! Just counted the teeth (21) from a photo, estimated the inner/outer diameter ratio (about 0.95), drew some curves by vibes, made one test fixture with OD values from 4.8mm to 5.2mm in steps of 0.05mm, and 5.0mm worked great. #onshape #cad

Heads up/call for testing for #CAD users, from OpenBSD KDE/Qt port maintainer Rafael Sadowski, #KiCAD has recently been updated to 9.0.0 in -current, meaning it will likely be available as a package again for #OpenBSD 7.7.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=174188207511322&w=2

Ok, so I've realized belatedly that #onshape #cad does in fact support functional abstractions of parts over dimensions, which is neat.

You just gotta make a part, go into the "configurations" panel, "create a configuration variable", use that variable in your part, then in another part studio you can do a Derived feature referring to the first part, and then you get to specify a value for the "configuration variable", i.e. pass argument to the function.

It's #FreeCADFriday ! Show us what wonderful things you are working on at the moment! #FreeCAD #CAD #CAM #Opensource

Holy fuck the cad software logic is mess up. I kind of get this restricted rectangle thingy but where F is hidden the unrestrain feature. Maybe CAD people are always restrained... tried 3 different software all unusable for even creating a 3D
#Solvespace why can you just make it easy?
#freeCAD like come on, I got the rectangle where are all the features hidden?
#CAD sketchup plugin, ½way there with the integration, gotta mess with the blender stuff anyway so why not just activate edge length?

On #Linux, after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, #Plasticity3D for Windows works very well with the standard version of Wine, which you can install directly from the system’s package manager. so now you can use smoothly all features even on Linux. The video show well it on wine, #CAD

I miss Fusion 360. Are there any open source 3D CAD programs with decent UI?

Last time we tried FreeCAD was several years ago, but it was HORRENDOUSLY confusing. Ye gods, SO MANY TOOLBARS. Even Blender wasn't that bad.

Maybe it's better now, I don't know. Or maybe there's something else?

We know and love Blender, but I really like Fusion 360's "tweakable stack of edits to the object" model, and while Blender HAS modifiers, they're not really designed for modeling from the ground up that way.

“A New Era for Mechanical CAD: Time to move forward from decades-old design”

#CAD / #JessieFrazelle / #geometry / #rustlang (2021) <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3469844>